Duplicate of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Review

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Puck

Question 2

How many lines are in a sonnet?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 3

What is an iamb?

Accepted Answer

Two syllables - one unstressed, one stressed

Question 4

What is Bottom's most notable characteristic?

Accepted Answer

He is conceited/vain

Question 5

How many quatrains are in a sonnet?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 6

The room where ushers placed the boxes of money from the theatergoers was called...

Accepted Answer

The Box Office

Question 7

How does Hippolyta come to be betrothed to Theseus?

Accepted Answer

Theseus conquered her in battle

Question 8

In the play within a play, why does Pyramus kill himself?

Accepted Answer

He believes Thisbe is dead after finding her bloody clothes

Question 9

What is the title of the actors' play?

Accepted Answer

Pyramus and Thisbe

Question 10

"And never since the middle summer's spring" contains...

Accepted Answer

Assonance

Question 11

Why does Bottom want a prologue written for the play?

Accepted Answer

He wants to tell the ladies that he won't really die

Question 12

How many characters are on stage during a soliloquy?

Accepted Answer

One

Question 13

Who is the Queen of the Amazons?

Accepted Answer

Hippolyta

Question 14

Near the end of the play, Theseus invite the pair of lovers to:

Accepted Answer

Be married in the same ceremony as he

Question 15

What is a quatrain?

Accepted Answer

Four lines

Question 16

Who is the leader of the acting troupe?

Accepted Answer

Quince

Question 17

Who is in love with Hermia and loved by Helena at the beginning of the play?

Accepted Answer

Demetrius

Question 18

Where is the play set?

Accepted Answer

Athens, Greece

Question 19

Who places the love juice upon Titania's eyes?

Accepted Answer

Oberon

Question 20

Who plays the lion in the actors play?

Accepted Answer

Snug

Question 21

"I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me." This is a(n)...

Accepted Answer

Pun

Question 22

Who says "I am your spaniel, Demetrius, and the more you beat me, I will fawn on you."

Accepted Answer

Helena

Question 23

How many characters are onstage during a monologue?

Accepted Answer

More than 1

Question 24

How many iambs are in a line of verse?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 25

What is a couplet?

Accepted Answer

Two lines that rhyme

Question 26

Who plays the part of the wall in Pyramus and Thisbe?

Accepted Answer

Snout

Question 27

What is NOT one of Hermias three choices?

Accepted Answer

Work for the Duke

Question 28

Who plays the part of Thisby in Pyramus and Thisbe?

Accepted Answer

Flute

Question 29

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a...

Accepted Answer

Comedy

Question 30

"Tedious and brief? That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow." This contains...

Accepted Answer

Oxymoron

Question 31

Where do Lysander and Hermia plan to be married?

Accepted Answer

Lysander's aunts house

Question 32

What does Helena hope to gain telling Demetrius of Lysander and Hermia's flight to the woods?

Accepted Answer

A thank you

Question 33

Shakespeare's plays traditionally begin in one of what three ways?

Accepted Answer

The supernatural, violence, and hot "women"

Question 34

Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius. What follows is a result of...

Accepted Answer

Dramatic irony

Question 35

Shakespeare wrote during which monarch's reign?

Accepted Answer

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 36

Why are the fairies in the woods next to Athens?

Accepted Answer

They are there to bless Theseus & Hippo-Face's marraige

Question 37

Who says "Nay faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming."?

Accepted Answer

Flute

Question 38

All the actors on the Globe Theatre stage would have been...

Accepted Answer

Male

Question 39

Why does the duke want the play Pyramus and Thisbe above all the others?

Accepted Answer

The duke wants to laugh at how "simple" they are

Question 40

Who do Lysander and Demetrius both mistakenly fall in love with at the same time?

Accepted Answer

Helena

Question 41

Who is Hermia in love with?

Accepted Answer

Lysander

Question 42

Who plays the part of moonshine in Pyramus and Thisbe?

Accepted Answer

Starveling

Question 43

How did the love in idleness flower get its power?

Accepted Answer

Cupids arrow struck it

Question 44

How does Puck prevent Demetrius and Lysander from fighting?

Accepted Answer

Mimicking their voices and causing each to get lost

Question 45

What were those who stood on the ground in front of the stage of the Globe Theatre called?

Accepted Answer

Groundlings

Question 46

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

Accepted Answer

Lysander

Question 47

Who says "O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love."?

Accepted Answer

Hermia

Question 48

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

Accepted Answer

Lysander

Question 49

Who places the flower's juice into Lysander's eyes?

Accepted Answer

Puck

Question 50

Who places the love juice on Demetrius's eyes?

Accepted Answer

Oberon

Question 51

Which of the following characters speak in Prose?

Accepted Answer

Snug

Question 52

What did Hermia have a terrible nightmare about?

Accepted Answer

A snake eating her heart while Lysander watched smiling

Question 53

Who states, "As she is mine, I may dispose of her"?

Accepted Answer

Egeus

Question 54

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind."

Accepted Answer

Has an allusion and personification

Question 55

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

Accepted Answer

Her height

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