flowers | What are part of the cult of Titania? |
Diana | Oberon refers to the moon as a symbol of |
rubies | What are the red spots on flowers? |
fairy | When we first meet Puck at the beginning of the second act, who/what is he with? |
moon | The play opens with Theseus’ lament about the |
Helena | Who said, “The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger”? |
Hermia | Who said, “By all the vows that ever men have broke”? |
Hermia | Who said, “Do thy best To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast”? |
Puck | Who said, “How now, spirit! whither wander you?”? |
Theseus | Who said, “I woo’d thee with my sword”? |
duty | What is more absent than present? |
dreams | What serve(s) as a way to explain away plot holes or add a gauzy mystery? |
fools | Puck sees the mortal world as full of what? |
woods | Where do some Athenian workers want to go to rehearse? |
fairies | What is Theseus certain are not real? |
Romeo and Juliet | What else was Shakespeare working on when he wrote this play? |
lovers | This play is about two sets of |
Puck | __________ is all except a Puritan man who falls for a married woman. |
1 | If you were a judge, on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate Starveling’s talent? |
lion | Snug plays the role of the |
Most cantankerous character | What is Demetrius’ claim to fame? |
adieu, adieu, adieu | Flute’s character dies onstage crooning: |
fools | Love makes all of these folks ________? |
Athens | The Play is set in which Greek city? |
a nunnery | What third option does Theseus offers Helena, other than marrying one of her two suitors? |
Theseus and Hippolyta | The play centers around the marriage of which Duke and Queen? |
disorder in the natural world | The marital argument between Oberon and Titania has caused what? |
Demetrius | In Act I, whom has Egeus selected for his daughter Hermia to marry? |
Titania | Oberon loves (or is at least married to) |
mischief | Robin Goodfellow loves |
Demetrius | Helena loves |
Hermia | Lysander loves |
weaving | Nick Bottom loves |
Beagle | All of the following are servants who wait on Nick Bottom except |
Nick Bottom | When Titania wakes from her slumber, first under the love-spell, whom does she first see? |
Lysander for Demetrius | With the magic flower juice, Puck (like most readers) mistakes who for whom? |
laborers | Who is performing the play about Pyramus and Thisbe? |
donkey | Puck turns Nick Bottom’s head into which animal? |
a midsummer night’s dream | In the final act, what do the lovers consider their experiences to have been? |
the dark, ridiculous side | They play concerns itself with what aspect of love? |
Hermia | Theseus overrules Egeus’ marriage command, because Demetrius doesn’t love _______ anymore. |
Puck | The famed epilogue of the play is given by |
Pyramus and Thisbe | The final play within the play is titled |
Puck | Who said, “If we shadows have offended,/ Think but this, and all is mended, /That you have but slumbered here/ While these visions did appear.”? |
Puck | Who said, “I am that merry wanderer of the night”? |
Theseus | Who said, “To live a barren sister all your life,/Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.”? |
Quince | Who said, “To show our simple skill,/That is the true beginning of our end.”? |
Lysander | Who said, “The course of love never did run smooth.”? |
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
August 15, 2019