WorksheetsA Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 23mins
The setting takes place in ...
Rome, Italy
Sparta, Greece
Athens, Greece
Athenian, Greece
Who is getting married?
Thisbian and Hyperlady
Theseus and Hermia
Theseus and Helena
Theseus and Hippolyta
Where do Hermia and Lysander plan to escape the law of Athens?
The woods.
Lysander's aunt.
Lysander's cousin.
Nick Bottoms.
Who holds the hearts of the two men at the beginning of the play?
Helena
Hermia
Hippolyta
Titania
What are Hermia's alternatives to marrying Demetrius?
Die
Be banished to a nunnery.
Marry Lysander
Be banished to a nunnery or lose her life.
Why is Egeus disturbed?
He wants his daughter, Helena to marry Demetrius, but she loves and desires to marry Lysander.
He wants his daughter, Hermia, to marry Demetrius, but she loves and desires to marry Lysander.
He wants his daughter, Hermia, to marry Lysander, but she loves and desires to marry Demetrius.
He wants his daughter, Helena, to marry Demetrius, but she loves and desires to marry Lysander.
What hope does Helena have by telling Demetrius of Lysander and Hermia's flight?
She hopes he might change his mind about her and fall back in love with her.
She wants to make her friend angry because she is jealous.
She secretly is in love with Lysander and hopes that this will help her.
Why are the tradesmens performing Pyramus and Thisbe?
to entertain the Oberon and Titania
to woe over Titania
to celebrate Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding.
In making a case to Theseus regarding Hermia's falling in love with Lysander, Egeus says the following lines:
My gracious duke,
This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child
These lines suggest that:
Lysander has stolen Hermia's love.
Lysander has injured Hermia
Demetrius is the man Hermia loves
Lysander has evil powers over others.
What role does Bottom wish to play?
Pyramus because it is the lead role.
The lion because he can roar better than anyone else.
Thisbe because he can speak in a perfect "little voice".
He wants to play all the roles because he thinks he is the best actor among all the actors in the company.
How does Quince, the director, argue against Bottom being the lion?
He says he isn't hairy enough to look like a lion.
He tells him that his roar would be so good it would scare the audience.
He tells him that he will get to be a tiger in the next play.
What is the name of the play to be performed?
The Most Lamentable Comedy and Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe
The Most Lamentable Comedy and Cruel Death of Hermia and Lysander
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Twisted Love in Athens
Why does Quince have so much trouble controlling the meeting of the mechanicals?
Because he forgot why they are meeting
Because he's too nervous about performing at the Duke's wedding
Because Bottom keeps interrupting
Because he's hungry
What is the reason that Flute does not wish to play the part of Thisbe in the play Pyramus and Thisbe?
He wants to be the lion.
He does not like the play
He has trouble learning lines
He has a beard coming in
Who are "The Mechanicals"?
A group of workers who also put on plays
What the noblemen in Athens call themselves
The group organizing all activities to celebrate Theseus wedding
Hippolyta's bodyguards
Who is the lead director of The Mechanicals?
Nick Bottom
Peter Quince
Snug
Starvelling
Where do The Mechanicals plan to meet to rehearse?
Bottom's house
Theseus' castle
They do not plan on rehearsing at all
The woods
Who is Hermia's father?
Egeus
Theseus
Nick
Lysander
What complaint does Egeus bring to Theseus?
He loves a woman who doesn't love him.
His daughter, Hermia, wants to marry a different guy than he wants.
He is angry the fairies have interfered in his life.
He wants to marry Hippolyta and is asking for permission.
Who does Hermia love?
Theseus
Lysander
Denetrius
Nick
According to Egeus, who has permission to marry his daughter, Hermia?
Lysander
Theseus
Nick
Demetrius
Who did Demetrius court in the past, whom he also made fall in love with him?
Hermia
Titania
Hippolyta
Helena
What do Lysander and Hermia agree to do?
They will meet on the next night in the woods and escape to Lysander's aunt's house to be married
She will do as her father asks, but she will poison Demetrius soon after the marriage. Then she will marry Lysander.
They will stand together and defy her father.
She will do as her father asks.
