Literature V6_A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Literature V6_A Midsummer Night's Dream

Who is chosen to play the lion in the craftsmen’s play?

1. Bottom
2. Quince
3. Peaseblossom
4. Snug

Which of the young Athenians is first affected by the love potion?

1. Lysander
2. Helena
3. Hermia
4. Demetrius

Which man does Hermia’s father want her to marry?

1. Lysander
2. Demetrius
3. Theseus
4. Philostrate

Where do Lysander and Hermia plan to be married?

1. Theseus’s palace
2. Lysander’s aunt’s house
3. The temple of Diana
4. A forest glade

What part of her appearance does Hermia believe Helena has exploited to win Lysander’s love?

1. Her hair
2. Her face
3. Her height
4. Her legs

What does Oberon want that Titania refuses to give him?

1. Her attendant, an Indian prince
2. Her magic wand
3. Her maid-in-waiting
4. Her love

Why does Pyramus, in the craftsmen’s play, kill himself?

1. Thisbe does not love him.
2. Thisbe has been killed by a lion.
3. Thisbe has been killed by her father.
4. Pyramus believes Thisbe is killed by a lion.

Who brings the complaint against Hermia to Theseus in Act I?

1. Egeus
2. Bottom
3. Hippolyta
4. Demetrius

Of whom is Hippolyta the queen?

1. The Pygmies
2. The Centaurs
3. The Amazons
4. The Babylonians

How does Puck prevent Demetrius and Lysander from fighting?

1. By freezing them
2. By transforming their weapons to weeds
3. By squeezing the love potion onto their eyelids
4. By mimicking their voices and causing each to get lost in a separate part of the forest

Which of the women is afraid of fighting?

1. Hippolyta
2. Hermia
3. Titania
4. Helena

Whom does Demetrius love at the end of the play?

1. Titania
2. Hippolyta
3. Helena
4. Hermia

With whom does Titania fall in love in Act III?

1. Snug
2. Puck
3. Bottom
4. Mustardseed

What prank does Puck play on Bottom?

1. He transforms him into a bear.
2. He steals his clothes.
3. He changes his voice into that of a wood thrush.
4. He changes his head into that of an ass.

Who first thinks of using the love potion on Titania?

1. Puck
2. Oberon
3. Bottom
4. Cobweb

Who speaks with Titania’s quartet of attendants?

1. None of the human characters
2. All of the human characters
3. Only Demetrius and Lysander
4. Only Bottom

Why is the flower whose juice Oberon seeks special?

1. Titania has kissed it.
2. One of Cupid’s arrows struck it.
3. It was a traditional symbol of love in English folklore.
4. Fairies sleep in it.

Which of the craftsmen is in charge of the rehearsals?

1. Quince
2. Snout
3. Bottom
4. Starveling

In what year was Shakespeare born?

1. 1563
2. 1616
3. 1564
4. 1615

Who tells Demetrius that Lysander and Hermia are planning to elope?

1. Hermia
2. Flute
3. Puck
4. Helena

What food does Bottom crave after Puck’s mischief?

1. Steak
2. Kidney pie
3. Squirrel
4. Hay

What are Theseus and Hippolyta about to do before they discover the sleeping lovers?

1. Listen to Theseus’s hounds baying.
2. Watch Theseus’s falcons hunting.
3. Watch Theseus’s deer roaming.
4. See Theseus’s golden lion.

How many weddings take place before the play-within-a-play?

1. 4
2. 2
3. 3
4. 1

Who blesses Theseus and Hippolyta with a magical charm at the end of the play?

1. Puck
2. Oberon
3. Titania
4. Oberon and Titania

Who suggests that the audience consider whether the entire play has been a dream?

1. Snout
2. Puck
3. Titania
4. Peaseblossom