Midsummer: Characters
This ruler of Athens presides over the play’s events and approves the lovers’ marriages.
Theseus
Name the author of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
Which mechanical plays Thisbe in the play-within-the-play?
Flute
What event sets Will’s story in motion?
The killing of his brother Shawn
In “Harrison Bergeron,” why are handicaps imposed on citizens?
To enforce absolute equality
She is the Queen of the Fairies who quarrels with her husband over a changeling boy.
Titania
Hermia and Lysander plan to run away to this place (outside Athens) so they can marry.
Lysander’s aunt’s house / the forest outside Athens
Who organizes and directs the mechanicals’ production of Pyramus and Thisbe?
Peter Quince
What object does Will carry with him during the elevator ride that symbolizes his intent?
A gun
Who is the Handicapper General who enforces the laws in “Harrison Bergeron”?
Diana Moon Glampers
The mischievous fairy servant tasked with carrying out Oberon’s plan; he applies the love potion to the wrong Athenian.
Puck
Who says, “Lord, what fools these mortals be”?
Puck
Which of these is a recognizable feature of the Shakespearean stage listed on the exam: balcony, door, hallway, or nook?
Hallway
Who originally gave Shawn the gun?
Buck
In “There Will Come Soft Rains,” what catastrophic event led to the family’s disappearance?
A nuclear explosion
Hermia’s strict father who demands she marry Demetrius or face severe consequences.
Egeus
dentify the speaker of: “I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius, / The more you beat me, I will fawn on you…”
Helena
What dramatic purpose does the mechanicals’ bad acting of Pyramus and Thisbe serve in the play?
Comic relief
Which elevator visitor forces Will to say aloud that he will kill someone?
Uncle Mark
What ultimately destroys the automated house in Bradbury’s story?
A fire
A weaver whose head is transformed and who performs the role of Pyramus in the mechanicals’ play.
Nick Bottom
Explain in one sentence why Titania falls in love with Bottom.
Titania is enchanted by Oberon’s love potion and therefore falls in love with the first creature she sees, Bottom, whose head has been transformed.
Match the quote to its speaker: “Write me a prologue ... that Pyramus is not Pyramus…”
Bottom
n one sentence, state the story’s main message about revenge and cycles of violence.
The book argues that revenge perpetuates pain and the cycle of violence, and choosing not to retaliate is the only way to break that cycle.
In “2 B R 0 2 B,” what rule governs population control?
One person must die for every new birth