Characters
Who is the fairy king in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
OBERON
Where does most of A Midsummer Night’s Dream take place?
In the forest near Athens
Finish this famous line: “Lord, what fools these _____ be!” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Mortals
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, what does the “love-in-idleness” flower symbolize?
The irrational power of love / love’s magic
Who wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
William Shakespeare
In The Tell-Tale Heart, who is murdered?
What does the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart claim to hear after killing the old man?
The beating of the old man’s heart
“I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!” — What is the narrator talking about? (The Tell-Tale Heart)
The old man’s vulture eye
In The Tell-Tale Heart, what does the beating heart symbolize?
The narrator’s guilt and conscience
Which literary movement is Edgar Allan Poe associated with?
Romanticism / Gothic literature
Name the jealous lover in A Midsummer Night’s Dream who is in love with Hermia.
DEMETRIUS
What punishment does Theseus give Hermia if she refuses to marry Demetrius?
Death or life in a convent (nunhood)
Who says: “The course of true love never did run smooth”? (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Lysander
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, what theme is shown by the play within a play (“Pyramus and Thisbe”)?
The contrast between illusion and reality
In what century were Shakespeare and Poe writing?
Shakespeare: 16th–17th; Poe: 19th
In The Black Cat, what is the name of the narrator’s first cat?
PLUTO
In The Black Cat, where does the narrator hide his wife’s body?
Inside the wall of the cellar
“But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.” — From which story?
The Black Cat
In The Black Cat, what does the second cat with the white mark symbolize?
The narrator’s guilt and descent into madness
Where was Poe from, and where was Shakespeare from?
Poe: United States; Shakespeare: England
Which two A Midsummer Night’s Dream characters are transformed by magic (one into a donkey, one to fall in love)?
BOTTOM AND TITANIA
How do Puck and Oberon resolve the lovers’ confusion at the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
They use the magic flower to restore the right pairings
Who says the line: “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact”?
Theseus, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Both Poe and Shakespeare explore irrational human behavior. What common theme links A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Poe’s tales?
The thin line between reason and madness
What important literary innovation is Poe often credited with creating?
The detective story / modern short story techniques