It’s All Greek
Who is the Duke of Athens preparing to marry at the start of the play?
Who is Hippolyta?
Who is the fairy king in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Who is Oberon?
Which two couples get married at the end of the play?
Who are Theseus & Hippolyta and Lysander & Hermia (also Demetrius & Helena)?
Who is the overconfident weaver who plays Pyramus?
Who is Nick Bottom?
What strange transformation happens to Bottom in the forest?
His head is changed into that of a donkey.
This Athenian law gives fathers control over whom their daughters marry.
What is the law of patriarchy or Athenian marriage law?
Titania refuses to give up a young boy because his mother was one of these.
Who is a devoted follower of Titania?
Hermia’s father insists she marry this man instead of Lysander.
Who is Demetrius?
What trade is Peter Quince, the director of the play-within-a-play?
What is a carpenter?
Titania’s love for Bottom represents what theme about love?
That love is blind or irrational.
Which Greek god of love does Cupid represent when Oberon describes his arrow missing a fair maiden?
Who is Eros?
What magical flower causes characters to fall in love with the first thing they see?
What is “love-in-idleness”?
What punishment does Theseus say Hermia will face if she refuses to marry Demetrius?
What is death or becoming a nun?
What happens to Bottom while rehearsing in the woods?
Puck gives him the head of a donkey.
What do the sleeping potions and dream imagery symbolize throughout the play?
The blurry line between reality and illusion.
Theseus conquered this land before marrying its queen.
What is the land of the Amazons?
What mischievous fairy is responsible for mixing up the lovers with the love potion?
Who is Puck (or Robin Goodfellow)?
What plan do Lysander and Hermia make to escape Athenian law?
They plan to run away and marry outside Athens.
What is the title of the play the mechanicals perform for the Duke?
What is Pyramus and Thisbe?
How does Puck “make amends” at the end of the play?
He asks the audience to think of the story as nothing more than a dream.
The play begins and ends in this city, symbolizing order and civilization.
What is Athens?
Name one way Oberon’s magic affects Titania’s perception of reality.
She falls in love with Bottom, who has been transformed to have a donkey’s head.
How does love’s confusion get resolved at the end of the play?
Oberon lifts the spell, restoring true love between Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius remains in love with Helena.
Why is the mechanicals’ play so funny to the noble audience?
Because of their poor acting, misunderstandings, and over-the-top delivery.
What is one major transformation in the play that isn’t physical?
The emotional transformation of Demetrius, who genuinely falls back in love with Helena.