A Midsummer Night's Dream

Question 1

What is the setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Accepted Answer

Athens, Greece during the 16th Century

Question 2

What is Hermia's response to the options Theseus gives her before she has to make her decision?

Accepted Answer

She chooses to be sent to a nunnery

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT something Titania offers Bottom?

Accepted Answer

gold

Question 4

How does Titania feel about Oberon by the end of the play?

Accepted Answer

They are friends again

Question 5

Which literary device is used in the line "And make her full of hateful fantasies"?

Accepted Answer

oxymoron

Question 6

Which of the following magical events happened first?

Accepted Answer

Puck put love potion on Lysander's eyes

Question 7

How does Puck feel about making the mistake of putting the love potion on the wrong eyes?

Accepted Answer

He is amused by it

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT supposed to happen on the fourth day of the play?

Accepted Answer

Puck reverses the love spell on Demtrius

Question 9

Which of the following characters does NOT wish to fight?

Accepted Answer

Helena

Question 10

What is the name of the acting group that Shakespeare was a part of?

Accepted Answer

Lord Chamberlain's Men

Question 11

What reactions do Theseus and Hippolyta have about the stories the Athenians tell them?

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Hippolyta believes them but Theseus does not

Question 12

Which literary device is used when Helena says, "I am your spaniel"?

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 13

What is the time period in which Shakespeare wrote his plays known as?

Accepted Answer

The Renaissance

Question 14

Who said, "I beg the law, the law, upon his head"?

Accepted Answer

Egeus

Question 15

Who said, "Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe"?

Accepted Answer

Demetrius

Question 16

Who says, "If we shadows have offended, think bu this and all is mended"?

Accepted Answer

Puck

Question 17

Which literary device is used when a character uses extreme exaggeration to express feelings?

Accepted Answer

hyperbole

Question 18

Which character is NOT properly matched with their title?

Accepted Answer

Oberon, King of Athens

Question 19

Which literary devices are used in the line, "That is hot ice and wondrous snow"?

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metaphor and oxymoron

Question 20

Which literary device is used in the line, "He bravely broached his boiling bloody beast"?

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alliteration

Question 21

Why do Oberon, Titania, and Puck visit Theseus's palace at the end of the play?

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To bless it

Question 22

Who says, "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact"?

Accepted Answer

Theseus

Question 23

Which 2 literary devices are used in "I will roar you as gentle as a suckling dove"?

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paradox and simile

Question 24

Who said, "Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead. Now I am fled. My soul is in the sky"?

Accepted Answer

Bottom

Question 25

Why did Helena tell Demetrius about Lysander and Hermia's plan to elope?

Accepted Answer

Because she hoped to win Demetrius's love by telling him

Question 26

Who said the quote, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"?

Accepted Answer

Puck

Question 27

Who said the line, "So we grew together like to a double cherry tree..."

Accepted Answer

Helena

Question 28

Why do the fairies sing as Titania falls asleep?

Accepted Answer

To protect her from animals and spells

Question 29

How does Oberon feel about the mistake Puck made by putting the love potion on the wrong eyes?

Accepted Answer

He is angry about it

Question 30

Which of the following events happened last?

Accepted Answer

Puck removed the donkey head from Bottom

Question 31

What does the word "chide" mean?

Accepted Answer

fight

Question 32

Which literary device is being used in the line "The childing autumn, the angry winter..."

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Personification

Question 33

Why did Titania take a young Indian boy?

Accepted Answer

Because his mother died during childbirth

Question 34

Why does Helena think Demetrius and Lysander have suddenly fallen in love with her?

Accepted Answer

Because they are playing a mean joke on her

Question 35

Which literary device is used when Oberon says, "There lies your lover" to Titania?

Accepted Answer

Pun

Question 36

Which of the following is NOT true about William Shakespeare?

Accepted Answer

He was born in London, England

Question 37

How does Bottom feel about being tended to by Titania's fairies?

Accepted Answer

He thinks it's a joke and takes advantage of it

Question 38

Which literary device is in the line, "The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again"?

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 39

Which of the following is NOT an option Theseus gives to Hermia in the beginning of the play?

Accepted Answer

banishment from Athens

Question 40

Who says, "The course of true love never did run smooth"?

Accepted Answer

Lysander

Question 41

Which Shakespeare play is being alluded to in the plot of "Pyramus and Thisbe"?

Accepted Answer

Romeo and Juliet

Question 42

Why does Bottom think the other actors are running away from him when they rehears the play?

Accepted Answer

Because he thinks they are playing a joke on him

Question 43

Who says, "To your father should be as a God"?

Accepted Answer

Theseus

Question 44

Who says,"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid blind"?

Accepted Answer

Helena

Question 45

Which literary device does Shakespeare use when he wants to establish a poetic rhythm?

Accepted Answer

Iambic Pentameter

Question 46

What does the word "fair" mean?

Accepted Answer

beautiful

Question 47

Which literary device describes a speech given by a character who is alone on stage?

Accepted Answer

Soliloquy

Question 48

Who says, "Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion"?

Accepted Answer

Bottom

Question 49

Which character is NOT matched correctly with the character they portray in the play?

Accepted Answer

Snug, The Wall

Question 50

Who is Puck also known as?

Accepted Answer

Robin Goodfellow

Question 51

What does the word "knavery" mean?

Accepted Answer

foolishness

Question 52

Which of the following is NOT a character in the play that the actors perform?

Accepted Answer

Mustardseed

Question 53

What does Bottom do while performing the play when he hears an audience member make a comment?

Accepted Answer

breaks character and explains the scene

Question 54

What is a "tiring-house"?

Accepted Answer

a dressing room

Question 55

Who said, “O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!”

Accepted Answer

Hermia

Question 56

Who said, "I am amazed at your passionate words. I scorn you not, It seems you scorn me"?

Accepted Answer

Hermia

Question 57

What do Theseus, Egeus, and Hippolyta find when they go into the woods in Act IV?

Accepted Answer

The Missing Athenians

Question 58

Which Greek myth does Helena allude to when describing her relationship with Demetrius?

Accepted Answer

Apollo and Daphne

Question 59

What does Bottom mean when he says, "I can gleek upon occasion'?

Accepted Answer

That he can joke around once in a while

Question 60

Who said, "I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was"?

Accepted Answer

Bottom

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