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Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 Scenes 1 and 2

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
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1.

What upcoming event is announced at the very start of the play?

a)

The marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta

b)

The marriage of Hermia and Lysander

c)

The marriage of Hermia and Demetrius

d)

The marriage of Bottom and Titania

2.

What is the 'ancient privilege of Athens' which Egeus talks to Theseus about?

a)

The right to speak to the Duke about difficult matters

b)

The right to attend his daughter's wedding

c)

The right to send Hermia to a monastery if she does not obey him

d)

The right to have Hermia killed if she does not obey him

3.

Which of these quotations is not link to the theme of gender and power?

a)

I wooed thee with my sword and won thy love by doing thee injuries

b)

To you your father should be as a God

c)

You are but as a form in wax by him imprinted

d)

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind

4.

Which female character seems to break expected gender roles by standing up for herself and refusing to follow men's instructions in Act One?

a)

Hippolyta

b)

Helena

c)

Hermia

d)

Titania

5.

Which of these characters do not speak in rhyming verse at any point in Act 1 Scene 1 & 2 or Act 2 Scene 1

a)

Hermia

b)

Peter Quince

c)

Puck

d)

Helena

6.

Which of these quotations from Lysander suggest that finding and marrying someone is never easy and often has unforeseen difficulties?

a)

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream/ Brief as the lightning in the collied night;

b)

The course of true love never did run smooth

c)

How chance the roses there do fade so fast?

d)

If thou lovest me then, Steal forth thy father’s house tomorrow night.

7.

"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind" say Helena. What Greek God does she refer to after this quote?

a)

"great Zeus is painted blind"

b)

"winged Cupid is painted blind"

c)

"beautiful Aphrodite cannot be find"

d)

"Wet Poseidon whined."

8.

Which name is used to refer to the group of workers who are planning to put on a play for Theseus's wedding?

a)

Quince and The Mechanics

b)

The Mechanicals

c)

Bottom's Up

d)

Peter Quince's Merry Band of Men

9.

The Mechanicals are planning to perform which Roman play about doomed lovers?

a)

Romeo and Juliet

b)

Troilus and Cressida

c)

Pyramus and Thisbe

d)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

10.

Which role does Quince ask Bottom to play in the show?

a)

A lion

b)

A women

c)

Pyramus

d)

Thisbe