Plot Points
This event prompts Hermia and Lysander to flee to the forest.
What is Egeus demanding that Hermia marry Demetrius, and Theseus supporting the law of Athens?
This flower’s juice creates the love potion.
What is the "love-in-idleness" flower?
These two men love Hermia at the start of the play.
Who are Lysander and Demetrius?
This character plays the lion in the mechanicals' play.
Who is Snug the joiner?
This character says, “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Who is Lysander?
This is why Titania is enchanted to fall in love with Bottom.
What is Oberon using a love potion to punish her for keeping the changeling boy?
This is the first mortal affected by the love potion.
Who is Lysander?
Helena reacts this way when Lysander falls in love with her.
What is believing he is mocking her?
Bottom wants to play every role in the play for this reason.
What is believing he’s the best actor and can perform all parts better than anyone else?
Finish this line: “Lord, what fools these mortals ___.”
What is ‘be’?
The mechanicals perform this play at the Duke’s wedding.
What is Pyramus and Thisbe?
These are Puck’s other names.
What are Robin Goodfellow and Hobgoblin?
This causes Hermia to fight with Helena in the forest.
What is Hermia believing Helena has stolen Lysander’s love?
The mechanicals think their play will cause these problems.
What is the lion scaring the ladies and Pyramus’s death seeming too real?
This character says, “Though she be but little, she is fierce.”
Who is Helena?
This character restores order among the lovers in the forest.
Who is Oberon?
This is why Puck transforms Bottom into a donkey.
What is to amuse himself and to use Bottom as part of Titania’s enchantment?
This couple is already married by the end of the play.
What is none; the couples marry during Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding?
The mechanicals address the audience’s concerns in this way.
What is including a prologue to explain that the lion is not real and Pyramus does not actually die?
This is what Puck says at the end of the play to address the audience.
What is apologizing and asking them to think of the play as a dream if they were offended?
This happens to the love potion’s effects at the end of the play.
What is Oberon removing the potion from Titania, but Demetrius remaining enchanted with Helena?
This is what Oberon hopes to achieve by enchanting Titania.
What is making her give up the changeling boy?
This is how Theseus resolves the lovers’ dilemma.
What is overruling Egeus and allowing Hermia to marry Lysander, while Demetrius stays with Helena?
This is the audience’s reaction to the mechanicals’ play.
What is finding it humorous and absurd but ultimately praising the effort?
Oberon calls the enchanted flower by this name.
What is ‘love-in-idleness’?