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Midsummer Night's Dream

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

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1.

In this passage, to what does Helena compare Love?

a)

a child

b)

a bird

c)

hail

d)

a flower

2.

Which statement best paraphrases the following lines:


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

a)

Love changes everything

b)

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

c)

Love can make vile and worthless things appear to have great value

d)

Love cannot by contained

3.

Which of the following lines contains and allusion?

a)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,"

b)

"But herein I mean to enrich my pain,"

c)

"Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste;"

d)

"And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind;"

4.

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

a)

Hermia is in love with Demetrius.

b)

Hermia deliberately attracted Demetrius's attention.

c)

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

d)

Demetrius loves Hermia because she is far more beautiful than Helena.

5.

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

a)

Love is beautiful and dignified.

b)

Love is blind, irrational, and childish.

c)

Love is patient and kind.

d)

Love is based on what we can see.

6.

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

a)

Forget her obsession and send Demetrius running after Hermia.

b)

Appeal to Demetrius' logic by listing the reason she is a better choice.

c)

Collect a monetary reward for telling Demetrius where Hermia is.

d)

Win Demetrius back by helping him find Hermia.

7.

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

a)

aside

b)

soliloquy

c)

monologue

d)

dramatic irony

8.

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

a)

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

b)

Hermia is unaware of Demetrius' obsession.

c)

Demetrius is unaware that Helena is obsessed with him.

d)

Helena believes she is more beautiful than Hermia.

9.

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.

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

10.

Which of the following lines contains a metaphor?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

11.

Who does Egeus want Hermia to marry?

a)

Demetrius

b)

Lysander

c)

Theseus

12.

What will happen to Hermia if she refuses to marry Demetrius?

a)

She will become a servant to the Duke of Athens

b)

She will be banished to the forest

c)

She can choose death or to become a nun

13.

What do Hermia and Lysander agree to do?

a)

She will obey her father and marry Demetrius

b)

She will obey her father but she will poison Demetrius after the wedding so she can marry Lysander

c)

She and Lysander will run away together and go to his aunt's house in the forest and get married

14.

Who is Theseus engaged to?

a)

Hermia

b)

Helena

c)

Hippolyta

15.

Why is Oberon angry with Titania?

a)

She has a young boy as her servant and Oberon wants him for himself but she refuses to share the child with him

b)

She is love with someone else and Oberon is Heartbroken

c)

She cast a spell on him

16.

Who is the first Athenian Puck anoints with the potion?

a)

Demetrius

b)

Helena

c)

Lysander

d)

Hermia

17.

What happens when Titania wakes up?

a)

She sees Lysander and she falls in love with him

b)

She sees Bottom and falls in love with him

c)

She sees Demetrius and falls in love with him

18.

What does Puck do to the lovers to stop Demetrius and Lysander from dueling?

a)

He disguises his voice to lure them away from one another; he puts them to sleep

b)

He disguises himself as one of the lovers

c)

He kills Helena

19.

After they wake up, Theseus sees that Demetrius and Helena are in love and Lysander and Hermia are in love, what does he order the couples to do?

a)

He orders Hermia to marry Demetrius

b)

He orders the guards to imprison Lysander

c)

He orders the lovers to be married with he and Hippolyta in the temple.

20.

Where does A Midsummer Night's Dream take place?

a)

Paris and the French countryside

b)

Athens and the magical forest

c)

London and The Globe Theatre

d)

Stratford on the Avon and London