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    This document contains a 20 question multiple choice and short answer test on William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The test covers key plot points, themes, characters, and passages from the play. It asks students to analyze quotes, identify literary devices, explain themes, and argue interpretations of relationships and events in the play. The final questions ask students to speculate on alternative endings and discuss the importance of the play concluding with a wedding.

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    This document contains a 20 question multiple choice and short answer test on William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The test covers key plot points, themes, characters, and passages from the play. It asks students to analyze quotes, identify literary devices, explain themes, and argue interpretations of relationships and events in the play. The final questions ask students to speculate on alternative endings and discuss the importance of the play concluding with a wedding.

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    This document contains a 20 question multiple choice and short answer test on William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The test covers key plot points, themes, characters, and passages from the play. It asks students to analyze quotes, identify literary devices, explain themes, and argue interpretations of relationships and events in the play. The final questions ask students to speculate on alternative endings and discuss the importance of the play concluding with a wedding.

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    Some of the key takeaways from the passage are that it provides context and questions for Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, focusing on themes of love, imagination, and the relationships between the characters.

    Bottom is trying to say that love and reason often do not go together, and it is unfortunate that some people will not reconcile the two. He is arguing that love is often arbitrary and irrational.

    Bottom turns into a donkey in Act 3.

    Name: _________________________

    Midsummer Nights Dream Unit Test


    Be confident in your knowledge!

    1. "God speed fair Helena.


    In this quote, how has the meaning of the word fair changed from Shakespeares time
    to now? (SR)
    a. Equal to beautiful
    b. Beautiful to equal
    c. Festival to equal
    d. Equal to festival

    2. Identify the meter in this quote: (SR)


    Keep word, Lysander: We must starve our sight
    From lovers food till morrow deep midnight.
    a. Spondaic meter
    b. Iambic Pentameter
    c. Trochaic Feet
    d. Stychomytia

    3. True or False: Everyone has control over who they love in the play. Explain why this
    statement is true or false. (SR)

    4. Which of the following is NOT a theme from A Midsummer Nights Dream? (SR)
    a. Love
    b. Imagination
    c. Dreams
    d. Masculinity

    5. Identify role is Puck playing in the play? (SR)


    a. Messenger
    b. Cupid
    c. Actor
    d. Leader of the fairies

    6. What point is Bottom trying to make when he says: (SR)


    Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for
    That. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little com-
    pany together nowadaysthe more the pity that some honest
    neighbours will not make them friends.
    a. Love is often arbitrary
    b. Bottom has no reasonable neighbors
    c. Bottom does not want to be with Titania
    d. Honesty is key in a good relationship

    7. Draw a line between the lovers and their match at the END of the play. (SR)
    Helena Lysander
    Hermia Oberon
    Titania Demetrius

    8. Helena and Hermia are essentially the same, but what is the one difference between
    them?
    a. Helena is much smarter than Hermia
    b. Hermia is more beautiful than Helena
    c. Helena is taller than Hermia
    d. Helena is richer than Hermia

    9. What does Egeus threaten if Hermia does not comply to his will? (SR)
    a. She will be forced into slavery
    b. She will spend the rest of her life in a nunnery
    c. She will be arrested
    d. She will die

    10. In what act does Bottom turn into a donkey? (SR)


    a. Act 1
    b. Act 2
    c. Act 3
    d. Act 4

    11. Duke Theseus says the lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact.
    How does this quote relate to a greater theme in the play? (respond in 3-5
    sentences). (commercial)

    12. Shakespeares plays are most often written in


    a. rhyming couplets.
    b. old English.
    c. blank verse.
    d. Prose.

    13. In act 2 scene 2, what does Oberon ask Puck to do?


    a. To give the Athenian a love potion
    b. To kiss Hermia as she sleeps
    c. To confuse all of the lovers in the forest
    d. To pester Titania

    14. Who does Helena tell of Hermia and Lysanders plan to flee Athens? (commercial)
    a. Duke Theseus
    b. Egeus, Hermias father
    c. Oberon, the fairy king
    d. Demetrius

    15. What play are the Mechanicals rehearsing to perform at the wedding of Theseus and
    Hippolyta? (commercial)
    a. The Taming of the Shrew
    b. The Tragedy of Pyramus and Thysbe
    c. The Murder of Gonzago
    d. Bottoms Dream

    16. HERMIA: O cross! too high to be enthralled to low


    LYSANDER: Or else misgrafted in respect of years
    HERMIA: O spite!too old to be engaged to young.
    LYSANDER Or merit stood upon the choice of friends

    In 3-4 sentences, write what meter is being used and what effect it has on stage? (CR)

    17. In what ways is battle of the sexes portrayed through Oberon and Titania? Argue your
    statement. (4-7sentences). (CR)

    18. At the end of the play, Puck says:


    If we shadows have offended,
    Think but this, and all is mended:
    That you have but slumbered here,
    While these visions did appear;

    What is Puck saying here about imagination and dreams? What is their importance to
    the final act of the play? (respond in 4-7 sentences)
    19. Why does Helena tell Demetrius about Hermia and Lysanders plan? (respond in 3-5
    sentences).

    20. In what ways do you believe this play could have ended differently to make it a tragedy?
    What is the importance of ending the play with a wedding and what would the effect
    have been if the wedding did not conclude the play? (4-7 sentences).

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