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WorksheetsA Midsummer Night's Dream A2S1 & Lit Terms
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
At the beginning of Act 2, why must the fairy servants keep Oberon and Titania separated?
It's bad luck for them to see one another on the night before their wedding.
They've fallen out of love.
Oberon has rejected Titania for Hermia.
They're very angry with each other.
At the beginning of Act 2 Scene 1, what does Titania accuse Oberon of?
falling in love with Helena
falling in love with Hermia
falling in love with Hippolyta
falling in love with Thisbe
What does Titania have that Oberon wants?
a human servant
an Indian prince
a royal title
Cupid’s fiery arrow
What happens when the juice of the love-in-idleness flower is rubbed on a sleeper's eyelids?
The sleeper won't wake up until the juice is washed off.
The sleeper will dream of his or her true love.
The sleeper will fall in love with the first living thing he or she sees upon waking.
The sleeper will turn into a fairy.
How does Oberon intend to punish his wife? Select TWO.
Oberon will make his wife fall deeply in love with him again.
Oberon will make his wife give him the Indian boy as his page.
He will put the love liquid (the flower juice) into the eyes of the "lovely boy stolen from an Indian king."
He will put the love liquid (the flower juice) in Titania's eyes.
Helena pursues Demetrius because...
she loves him.
Demetrius has been transformed into a dog.
she is pregnant with Demetrius' child.
she had the love liquid (the flower juice) trickled into her eyes.
True or False: Titania and Oberon are the King and Queen Fairies.
This statement is true.
This statement is false.
Oberon watches Demetrius and Helena's argument and tells Puck to put the magic flower juice on whose eyes?
Demetrius
Helena
Lysander
Hermia
Who does Demetrius leave alone in the woods?
Hermia
Lysander
Puck
Helena
Oberon sends Puck on an errand to do something for him. What is it?
To meet with Titania's fairies and create peace.
To find the magical flower and bring to him.
To go to Theseus and ask for his help in solving the problem between him and Titania.
To find Egeus and create a plan to win Titania's love back.
A long speech in which a character who is alone (or believes themselves to be alone) expresses their thoughts out loud.
Monologue
Soliloquy
Dialogue
Drama
A Midsummer Night's Dream is considered what? Select ALL that apply.
A play
A drama
A tragedy
A comedy
What is an example of an archaic word?
Nosegay
Hence
Sweetmeat
Yet
A two-line stanza that traditionally rhymes
Quatrain
Blank Verse
Couplet
Iambic Pentameter
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows/ Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows..." is an example of what?
Couplet
Imagery
Quatrain
Metaphor
A moment when a character uses the wrong word without meaning to
Malapropism
Archaic
Double Entendre
Pun
"I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius/ The more you beat me I will fawn on you/ Use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me/ Neglect me, lose me..." is an example of what?
Metaphor
Simile
Conceit
Imagery
A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other
Conceit
Antithesis
Aphorism
Simile
"But I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove..." is an example of what?
Simile
Metaphor
Imagery
Conceit
A fanciful elaborate metaphor which leans towards an over-exaggeration of beauty
Conceit
Metaphor
Antithesis
Aphorism
