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A Midsummer Night's Dream

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William Shakespeare Biography

Family Background
Education and Marriage
Life in London
Shakespeare's Work

About A Midsummer Night's Dream

Introduction
Sources and Allusions
Performance History
Structure of the Play
Theme
The Elizabethan Theater

Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act I: Scene 1
Act I: Scene 2
Act II: Scene 1
Act II: Scene 2
Act III: Scene 1
Act III: Scene 2
Act IV: Scene 1
Act IV: Scene 2
Act V: Scene 1

Character List

Character Map

Character Analysis

Hermia
Helena
Bottom
Puck
Oberon
Theseus

Critical Essays

Moon Imagery in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Imagining Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Brief Movie Review of Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Study and Homework Help

Famous Quotes from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Film Versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream
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1:  The play opens with the upcoming marriage of which couple?

a. Titania and Bottom

b. Theseus and Hippolyta

c. Hermia and Lysander

d. Oberon and Titania
2:  When the play begins Lysander and Demetrius are both in love with whom?

a. Helena

b. Hippolyta

c. Titania

d. Hermia
3:  What is the subject of the play-within-the-play?

a. Romeo and Juliet

b. Pyramus and Thisbe

c. Richard II

d. Queen Elizabeth
4:  What element in the play do the craftsmen think will frighten the women and perhaps result in the actors being hanged?

a. The fireworks at the end

b. The violent death of the hero

c. The lion’s roar

d. The demons and goblins
5:  What is Puck also know as?

a. Robin Goodfellow

b. Little Edward

c. Harold

d. The fool
6:  Why are Oberon and Titania fighting at the beginning of the play?

a. She is angry that he is always meddling in human affairs.

b. He is tired of her using Puck for her own errands.

c. She is secretly in love with Bottom.

d. He wants custody of the Indian boy.
7:  What does Puck transform Nick Bottom into?

a. A goat

b. A woman

c. An ass

d. A fairy
8:  Which character do Lysander and Demetrius both fall in love with after Puck sprinkles their eyes with love juice?

a. Helena

b. Titania

c. Hermia

d. Peaseblossom
9:  Which character does Titania fall in love with because of Oberon’s potion?

a. Peter Quince

b. Lysander

c. Bottom

d. Puck
10:  Who says the following: “Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex. We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we should be woo’d and were not made to woo.”

a. Hippolyta

b. Lysander

c. Helena

d. Titania
11:  Who says the following: “These things seem small and undistinguishable, like far-off mountains turned into clouds….Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.”

a. Demetrius

b. Theseus

c. Puck

d. Oberon



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