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WorksheetsA Midsummer Night's Dream Acts 1-3
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 42mins
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
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."
Which two descriptions describe Titania?
Queen of the Fairies
Loves Demetrius
Engaged to Theseus
Fights with Oberon over her "little changeling boy"
Which two descriptions describe Oberon?
Engaged to Hippolyta
King of the Fairies
Plots with Puck to cast a spell on his wife
King of Athens
Which two descriptions describe Theseus?
Hermia's father
King of Athens
King of the Fairies
Engaged to Hippolyta
Which two descriptions describe Hippolyta?
Married to Oberon
Engaged to Theseus
Queen of the Amazons
Hermia's father
Which two descriptions describe Egeus?
Hermia's father
King of the Fairies
Insists that Hermia marries Demetrius
Engaged to Hippolyta
Helena is in love with Demetrius and is Hermia's best friend.
True
False
Lysander is chosen by Egeus to marry Hermia.
True
False
Demetrius is in love with Hermia and plans to run away with her to his aunt's house in the woods.
True
False
Hermia is in love with Lysander and wants to marry him instead of Demetrius.
True
False
Puck hates being involved in these kinds of tricks.
True
False
Who are the six characters that plan to be in the play being performed at Theseus's wedding?
Flute
Snout
Starveling
Bottom
Quince and Snug
