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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Act III, scenes ii–iii

Act IV, scene i

Act IV, scene ii

Act V, scenes i–epilogue

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

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

(A) Bottom

(B) Quince

(D) Snug

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

(A) Lysander

(B) Helena

(D) Demetrius

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

(A) Lysander

(B) Demetrius

(D) Philostrate

4. Where do Lysander and Hermia plan to be married?

(A) Theseus’s palace

(B) Lysander’s aunt’s house

(D) A forest glade

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

(A) Her hair

(B) Her face

(D) Her legs

6. What does Oberon want that Titania refuses to give him?

(A) Her attendant, an Indian prince

(B) Her magic wand

(D) Her love

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

(A) Thisbe does not love him

(B) Thisbe has been killed by a lion

(D) Pyramus believes Thisbe has been killed by a lion because he finds her tattered garment at their meeting place

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

(A) Egeus

(B) Bottom

(D) Demetrius

9. Of whom is Hippolyta the queen?

(A) The Pygmies

(B) The Centaurs

(D) The Babylonians

10. How does Puck prevent Demetrius and Lysander from fighting?

(A) By freezing them

(B) By transforming their weapons to weeds

(D) By mimicking their voices and causing each to get lost in a separate part of the forest

11. Which of the women is afraid of fighting?

(A) Hippolyta

(B) Hermia

(D) Helena

12. Whom does Demetrius love at the end of the play?

(A) Titania

(B) Hippolyta

(D) Hermia

13. With whom does Titania fall in love in Act III?

(A) Snug

(B) Puck

(D) Mustardseed

14. What prank does Puck play on Bottom?

(A) He transforms him into a bear

(B) He steals his clothes

(D) He changes his head into that of an ass

15. Who first thinks of using the love potion on Titania?

(A) Puck

(B) Oberon

(D) Cobweb

16. Who speaks with Titania’s quartet of attendants?

(A) None of the human characters

(B) All of the human characters

(D) Only Bottom

17. Why is the flower whose juice Oberon seeks special?

(A) Titania has kissed it

(B) One of Cupid’s arrows struck it

(D) Fairies sleep in it

18. Which of the craftsmen is in charge of the rehearsals?

(A) Quince

(B) Snout

(D) Starveling

19. In what year was Shakespeare born?

(A) 1563

(B) 1616

(D) 1615

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

(A) Hermia

(B) Flute

(D) Helena

21. What food does Bottom crave after Puck’s mischief?

(A) Steak

(B) Kidney pie

(D) Hay

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

(A) Listen to Theseus’s hounds baying

(B) Watch Theseus’s falcons hunting

(D) See Theseus’s golden lion

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

(A) 4

(B) 2

(D) 1

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

(A) Puck

(B) Oberon

(D) Oberon and Titania

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

(A) Snout

(B) Puck

(D) Peaseblossom

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