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Midsummer Night's Dream Vocabulary Act I, II, III and Act V

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

“Examine…whether, if you yield not to your father’s

choice you can endure the _______________of a nun.”

a)

darkling

b)

collied

c)

livery

d)

troth

2.

“Or if there were a sympathy in

choice war, death, or sickness did lay siege to it making it…brief as the lightning in the ________ night.”

a)

collied

b)

changeling

c)

condole

d)

leviathan

e)

brakes

3.

leviathan

a)

bats

b)

clothes or habit

c)

faith

d)

child exchanged for another by the fairies

e)

sea monster

4.

livery

a)

bats

b)

sea monster

c)

to punch in the liver

d)

clothing

5.
to give up, abandon, or reject solemly
a)
dowager
b)
abjure
c)
nuptial
d)
chronicled
6.
a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy.
a)
knavish
b)
changeling
c)
hind
d)
leviathan
7.
to inflame with love; usually used in the passive voice.  To cause a feeling a strong or excessive interest or fascination with something
a)
enamored
b)
recreant
c)
derision
d)
auditor
8.
hold spellboud
a)
enthrall
b)
preposterously
c)
derision
d)
stealth
9.
a somber and dignified feeling
a)
solemnity
b)
paramour
c)
paragon
d)
seething
10.
a lover, especially a secret or illicit one
a)
paramour
b)
paragon
c)
seething
d)
audacious
11.
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
a)
sinister
b)
valor
c)
prodigious
d)
enthrall
12.
courage when facing danger
a)
valor
b)
prodigious
c)
enthrall
d)
preposterously
13.
untrustworthy; dishonest; deceitful
a)
knavish
b)
roundel
c)
waxen
d)
promontory
14.
accuse; charge with something, usually a crime
a)
hind
b)
languish
c)
promontory
d)
impeach
15.
dense bushes; plants resembling ferns
a)
dulcet
b)
impeach
c)
brakes
d)
knavish
16.

to become week or feeble from neglect

a)

waxen

b)

languish

c)

leviathan

17.

Relating to marriage or weddings

a)

nuptial

b)

extenuate

c)

dowager

18.

laughable business

a)

welkin

b)

derision

c)

gleek

d)

engilds

19.

juvenal

a)

gleek

b)

throstle

c)

patches

d)

youth

20.

“Fair Helena, who more ________ the night than all yon fiery oes and eyes of light.”

a)

incorporate

b)

engilds

c)

juvenal

21.

How does Bottom answer Titania's offer during act 4, scene 1.

a)

He asks for some nuts and grass.

b)

He accepts her offer to lead him out of the forest.

c)

He wants to practice his play.

d)

He asks for triangle and sticks music.

22.

How does Titania dress Bottom, accoriding to Oberon.

a)

She had put a wreath of fresh, fragrant flowers around his hairy forehead.

b)

She had his itchy beard shaved.

c)

She has transformed his ass' head back.

d)

She had her 3 fairies get various forest ingreadients to dress him, it doesn't happen in this scene.

23.

Oberon releases Titania from the love juice potion.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

I don't know.

d)

None of the above.

24.

In this scene Titania and Oberon continue to fight over the boy in this scene.

a)

true

b)

false

c)

I don't know

d)

None of the above

25.

Why are Theseus and Hyppolita in the forest in this scene?

a)

They wanted to be alone before the wedding day.

b)

They are practicing the Ides of March rites.

c)

They go for a daily walk together.

d)

They are observing the May day rites.

26.

How do the 4 athenian youths recall the events of the previous night?

a)

like a nightmare

b)

like a foggy dream

c)

like they had a scrumptious feast

d)

like they had too much wine