Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream

To what Does Helena compare love?

• a child

• a bird

• hail

• a flower

What does the following line mean?:

"Things base and vile, holding no quality, / Love can transpose to form and dignity

• Love changes everything

• While other things are vile and worthless, Love is beautiful and dignified

• Love can make vile things appear to have great value

• Love cannot be contained

Which of the following contains an allusion?

• Love looks not with ones eyes, but with the mind

• But herein mean I to enrich my pain

• Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste

• And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind

Which of the following can be supported with details from the text?

• Hermia is in love with Demetrius

• Hermia deliberately attracted Demetrius's attention

• Before he met Hermia, Demetrius pledged his love to Helena

• Demetrius loves Hermia because is is far more beautiful than Helena

Which of the following statements best summarizes Helena's description of Love?

• Love is beautiful and dignified

• Love is blind, irrational, and childish

• Love is patient and kind

• Love is based on what we see

At the end of the passage, what has Helena resolved to do?

• Forget her obsession and send Demetrius running after Hermia

• Appeal to Demetrius's logic by listing the reasons she is a better choice

• Collect a monetary reward for telling Demetrius where Hermia is

• Win Demetrius back by helping him find Hermia

In this passage, Helena speaks her thoughts aloud in a long speech not intended for others to hear. What is this called?

• aside

• soliloquy

• monologue

• dramatic irony

What is ironic about Helena's criticizing Demetrius's obsession with Hermia?

• She is just as obsessed with Demetrius as he is with Hermia

• Hermia is unaware of Demetrius's obsession

• Demetris is unaware that Helena is obsessed with her

• Helena believes she is more beautiful than Hermia

Helena says, "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." Which of the following interpretations can best be supported with details from the text?

• Love is based on logical evidence (the mind) not beauty (the eye)

• Love does not appeal to logical, visible evidence (the eye); it appeals to the illogical imagination (the mind)

• Love is based on beauty (the eye) not logical evidence (the mind)

• Love is based on visible characteristics (the eye) not on imagination (the mind)

Which of the following lines contains a metaphor?

• "And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt, / So he dissolved and show'rs of oaths did melt"

• "He will not know what all but he do know. / And he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes"

• "Then to the wood will he to-morrow night /Persue her..."

• "How happy some o'er other some can be! / Through Athens I am thought as fair as she."