WorksheetsMidsummer Night's Dream Inference
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 31mins
Reread lines 146-147 from this scene: “Well, go thy way. Thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury.” In these lines, Oberon is:
Ordering Puck to fetch the flower
Pleading with Titania to give him the Indian boy
Planning his escape from the forest
Plotting to get back to Titania for not doing what he wants
Read Oberon’s statements below. Select the one that best captures his intention for using “love-in-idleness,” the magic flower:
“My gentle Puck, come hither”
“Fetch me that flower, the herb I showed thee once”
“I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep”
“I’ll make her render up her page to me”
What is the effect of letting the audience know something that Titania does not know?
It makes this scene more suspenseful.
It makes Oberon seem cruel.
It makes this scene funnier.
It makes Shakespeare seem more in control of the scene.
We can infer that Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius because?
He likes Demetrius more
Hermia is almost too old to marry
Lysander he has bewitched Hermia
Lysander has a bad reputation with girls
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.
“Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon" (1.1.1-3)
wedding
celebration
stole
give up
“Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
Turn melancholy forth to funerals;
The pale companion is not for our pomp.” (1.1.16-19)
wedding
celebration
stole
give up
“With cunning hast thou filch’d my daughter’s heart,
Turn’d her obedience (which is due to me)
To stubborn harshness." (1.1.37-39)
wedding
celebration
stole
give up
“Either to die the death, or to abjure
For ever the society of men.” (1.1.67-68)
wedding
celebration
stole
give up
“Marry, our play is The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe.” (1.2.11)
sad/tragic
brave/heroic
followed
plans/schemes
“Never did I hear
Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves,
The skies, the fountains, every region near
Seem’d all one mutual cry.” (1.2.22-25)
sad/tragic
brave/heroic
followed
plans/schemes
“meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogg’d with company, and our devices known” (1.2.100)
sad/tragic
brave/heroic
followed
plans/schemes
“meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogg’d with company, and our devices known” (1.2.100)
sad/tragic
brave/heroic
followed
plans/schemes
“Either I mistake your shape and making quite,
Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
Call’d Robin Goodfellow. Are not you he
That frights the maidens of the villagery,” (2.1.33-36)
dishonest & troublesome
avoid or reject
sweet (especially for sound)
smear or rub liquid into
“If you will patiently dance in our round,
And see our moonlight revels, go with us;
If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.” (2.1.147-149)
dishonest & troublesome
avoid or reject
sweet (especially for sound)
smear or rub liquid into
“I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin’s back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath” (2.1.156-158)
dishonest & troublesome
avoid or reject
sweet (especially for sound)
smear or rub liquid into
“And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes,
And make her full of hateful fantasies. . . .
Anoint his eyes;
But do it when the next thing he espies
May be the lady.” (2.1.269-273)
dishonest & troublesome
avoid or reject
sweet (especially for sound)
smear or rub liquid into
“keep back
The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders
At our quaint spirits.” (2.2.6-8)
noisy
mock
obey
polite
“Is’t not enough, is’t not enough, young man,
That I did never, no, nor never can
Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius’ eye,
But you must flout my insufficiency?” (2.2.135-138)
noisy
mock
obey
polite
What phrase from Act 1, Scene 1 emphasizes the theme of love's difficulty?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
The course of true love never did run smooth.
I have had a most rare vision.
Ay, love! What has happened to me?
Which theme is best supported by Oberon's lines -- A sweet Athenian lady is in love / With a disdainful youth.
magic is powerful
people desire control
dreams are mysterious
relationships are illogical
What phrase best describes Bottom?
Well-educated
Short-tempered
Talented weaver
Over-confident
Why are Oberon and Titania fighting?
He doesn't love her anymore.
Her fairy attendants bother him.
She has a changeling boy that he wants as a servant.
She is cheating on him with a mortal.
At the end of Act I, who loves who?
Lysander loves Helena, Demetrius loves Helena, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
Lysander loves Helena, Demetrius loves Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
Lysander loves Hermia, Demetrius loves Helena, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
Lysander loves Hermia, Demetrius loves Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
At the end of Act II, who loves who?
Lysander loves Helena, Demetrius loves Helena, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
Lysander loves Helena, Demetrius loves Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
Lysander loves Hermia, Demetrius loves Helena, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
Lysander loves Hermia, Demetrius loves Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
At the end of Act III, who loves who?
Lysander loves Helena, Demetrius loves Helena, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
Lysander loves Helena, Demetrius loves Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
Lysander loves Hermia, Demetrius loves Helena, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
Lysander loves Hermia, Demetrius loves Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius
What phrase best describes Bottom?
Well-educated
Short-tempered
Talented weaver
Over-confident
the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, “dance a flamingo ” (instead of flamenco ).
metaphor
paradox
sonnet
malapropism
What's the best modern English adaptation of the line below?
"But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me."
I pray that your people won't stir.
Please don't let your people wake me up.
Please don't let your people rile me up.
I pray you only let your fairies bother me.
What's the best modern English adaptation of the line below?
That will ask some tears in the true performing of it. If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes. I will move storms.
I will have to cry when I perform; the audience will have to be wary of their own eyes, as I will make them cry a lot.
I will have to cry when I perform; the audience will have to keep an eye out for the weather, as I will make the clouds cry.
I cannot cry in front of people, so the audience will have to cry for me.
I will have to cry from your performance. My eyes as a viewer are so full of tears, I am practically a moving storm.
Which of the following lines best support Lysander's claim that "the course of true love never did run smooth"?
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, / And therefore is winged / Cupid painted blind.”
“And therefore Love is said to be a child, / Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.”
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity", / Love can transpose to form and dignity.”
“If then lovers have been ever crossed, / It stands as an edict in destiny: / Then let us teach our trial patience, / Because it is a customary cross.”
What is Helena lamenting in the above lines?
Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so.
He will not know what all but he do know.
And, as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Love, when felt by both, usually ends badly.
Lovers always have obstacles thrown in their way to test the strength of their love.
Love is stays true for an eternity if it is real and felt by both people involved.
Love is irrational. It depends only on an individual’s perception of the one they love, not on a practical judgment of looks and beauty.
Which quote reveals why Helena decides to betray her friends by telling Demetrius of their plans?
Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so.
Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated, The rest I’d give to be to you translated.
Call you me “fair”? That “fair” again unsay. Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!
But herein mean I to enrich my pain, To have his sight thither and back again.
A doppelganger is a character's double. Shakespeare uses this device in the play to add to the confusion and loss of identity that takes place.
Which lines from the play relate to doppelgangers?
“You were best to call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.”
“And even for that do I love you the more. / I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, / The more you beat me, / I will fawn on you.”
“How can these things in me seem scorn to you, / Bearing the badge of faith to prove them true?”
“Methinks I see these things with parted eye, / When every thing seems double.”
What is the dramatic function of the juice of the flower?
Puck's use and misuse of the potion allows Shakespeare to effect much of the action of the play.
Through Oberon's use of the flower, Shakespeare is able to create more comedy with the fairy queen falling in love with a man with an ass's head.
The potion's use in this play enhances the supernatural elements of the plot.
Through Puck's and Titania's use of the potion, Shakespeare is able to create more conflict and generate more audience interest in the actions of the play.
Which of the following lines from Act III includes a pun?
"The villain is much lighter-heeled than I;"
"I see their knavery. / This is to make an ass of me, to fright me, if they could;"
"Hang off, thou cat, thou bur! / Vile thing, let loose,"
none of these
In the following lines uttered by Hippolyta, what does the moon symbolize?
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.
Cupid's power of instilling love in anyone and anything with his bow and quiver of arrows.
True love as it relates to Hippolyta and Theseus, and Hermia and Lysander.
The "new-bent" love of Demetrius and Helena after their night in the woods.
The new married life of Hippolyta and Theseus.
Select what isn't allowed in formal writing.
contractions
"to be" verbs in the main clause of sentences
second person pronouns
first person pronouns
Which sentence does not have any errors?
Helena stresses her love for Demetrius when she compares herself to a spaniel.
Egeus is Hermia's father, and he wants her to marry Demetrius.
Shakespeare writes that "winged cupid [is] painted blind" in A Midsummer night's dream (1.1.240).
all sentences have errors
What's the best modern English adaptation of the line below?
"But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me."
I pray that your people won't stir.
Please don't let your people wake me up.
Please don't let your people rile me up.
I pray you only let your fairies bother me.
What is Helena lamenting in the above lines?
Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so.
He will not know what all but he do know.
And, as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Love, when felt by both, usually ends badly.
Lovers always have obstacles thrown in their way to test the strength of their love.
Love is stays true for an eternity if it is real and felt by both people involved.
Love is irrational. It depends only on an individual’s perception of the one they love, not on a practical judgment of looks and beauty.
Which of the following lines best support Lysander's claim that "the course of true love never did run smooth"?
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, / And therefore is winged / Cupid painted blind.”
“And therefore Love is said to be a child, / Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.”
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity", / Love can transpose to form and dignity.”
“If then lovers have been ever crossed, / It stands as an edict in destiny: / Then let us teach our trial patience, / Because it is a customary cross.”
What's the best modern English adaptation of the line below?
That will ask some tears in the true performing of it. If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes. I will move storms.
I will have to cry when I perform; the audience will have to be wary of their own eyes, as I will make them cry a lot.
I will have to cry when I perform; the audience will have to keep an eye out for the weather, as I will make the clouds cry.
I cannot cry in front of people, so the audience will have to cry for me.
I will have to cry from your performance. My eyes as a viewer are so full of tears, I am practically a moving storm.
Which quote reveals why Helena decides to betray her friends by telling Demetrius of their plans?
Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so.
Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated, The rest I’d give to be to you translated.
Call you me “fair”? That “fair” again unsay. Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!
But herein mean I to enrich my pain, To have his sight thither and back again.
Which of the following lines from Act III includes a pun?
"The villain is much lighter-heeled than I;"
"I see their knavery. / This is to make an ass of me, to fright me, if they could;"
"Hang off, thou cat, thou bur! / Vile thing, let loose,"
none of these
In the following lines uttered by Hippolyta, what does the moon symbolize?
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.
Cupid's power of instilling love in anyone and anything with his bow and quiver of arrows.
True love as it relates to Hippolyta and Theseus, and Hermia and Lysander.
The "new-bent" love of Demetrius and Helena after their night in the woods.
The new married life of Hippolyta and Theseus.
Theseus advises Hermia to obey her father with these words:
"I must confess that I haver heard so much, and with Demetrius thought to have spoken thereof."
"The course of love never did run smooth."
"To you your father should be as a god-"
Who said, “I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes."?
Puck when he was being corrected by Oberon
Helena when she was fighting with Hermia about her height
Titania when she was fighting with Oberon about the changeling
Hermia when she was fighting with Helena about stealing Lysander's love from her
"No, I am as ugly as a bear, for beasts that meet me run away for fear."
This quote contains...
onomatopoeia said by Hermia
metaphor said by Helena
simile said by Helena
personification said by Hermia
Which of these does NOT contain a simile?
"When thou wakest, if she be by, beg of her for remedy."
"About the wood go swifter than the wind, and Helena of Athens look thou find"
"Let her shine as gloriously as the Venus of the sky."
"I go, I go; look how I go, swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow."
When Helena calls Hermia a "puppet," what does she mean by this insult?
She is saying that Hermia looks goofy.
She is making fun of Hermia's short height.
She is saying that Hermia is being controlled by Lysander and Demetrius.
She is making fun of Hermia's jerky movements.
Which of these quotes contains METAPHOR?
Teach me how you look
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
Your eyes are lode-stars
Demetrius loves you fair.
Who says, "O spite! O Hell! I see you are all bent to set against me for your merriment?"
Hermia
Helena
Lysander
Demetrius
Helena states that "We cannot fight for love as men may do; / We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo" (2.1.245-246) What does Helena mean by this? Hint: Consider gender roles.
Women should take initiative while dating by pursuing men. Women are confident and strong.
Women are not meant or able to pursue men. Women are too weak and emotional. It goes against gender roles.
Dating is hard for both men and women. Women and men should pursue each other because they are equals.
Women should focus on getting married and having a family, and men should focus on winning the love of a woman.
1. “But somehow, something made my love for Hermia melt away like snow.” (pg. 137)
simile
irony
metaphor
“No eye has ever heard, no ear has ever seen, no hand has tasted, or tongue felt or heart described what my dream was like.”
irony
alliteration
hyperbole
Pyramus and Thisbe and Hermia and Lysander are similar because_________
They are both in love but kept apart by their families.
They both plan to run away to get married.
Their plans to run away do not go as planned.
All of the above.
Pyramus and Thisbe and Lysander and Hermia are different because_________________
Pyramus kills himself when he mistakenly thinks that Thisbe is dead.
Thisbe kills herself once she realizes what Pyramus has done.
Lysander and Hermia end up living happily ever after in the end.
All of the above.
Oberon and the fairies are blessing the lovers with good fortune. More specifically he says, "To the best bride bed will we, Which by us shall blessèd be. And the issue there create Ever shall be fortunate." What will the lovers get for being so fortunate?
power
money
perfect children
long life
The "Actors" discuss problems with their play. The discussion shows that...
they listen to anything Bottom tells them
they do not understand the need for suspense and illusion in a story
they are not taking the play seriously because they think the audience will love it regardless of its quality
they are highly creative personalities
