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Characters
Places
Plot
Language & Words
Quince's Play
100
The Duke and soon-to-be Duchess of Athens
Who are Theseus and Hippolyta?
100
Where A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place.
Where is Athens, Greece?
100
Hermia and Lysander's plan.
What is to leave Athens to marry?
100
"Livery of a nun" (Shakespeare 11).
What is a life of chastity?
100
The character who wants to play each role...but his own.
Who is Bottom?
200
Egeus, Hermia, Demetrius & Lysander
What is...Egeus is Hermia's father who is ordering her to marry Demetrius, but she is in love with Lysander?
200
Where the tradesman plan to meet to rehearse the play and why they choose this place.
What is in the woods? They agree to meet here to avoid anyone hearing or seeing them practice the play.
200
The purpose of Quince's play.
What is entertainment for Theseus & Hippolyta's wedding?
200
"Misgraffed in respect of years" (Shakespeare 15).
What is mismatched in age?
200
What the actors are supposed to do before meeting the following day.
What is memorize their lines?
300
Helena
Who is Hermia's best friend who is in love with Demetrius?
300
Where Hermia & Lysander plan to meet.
What is the woods?
300
Hermia tells Helena this.
What is her plan to run away with Lysander to marry him?
300
The modern English meaning of "ere".
What is "before"?
300
The title of the play.
What is Pyramus & Thisbe?
400
Quince
Who is the leader of the tradesman and leader of the play for Theseus' & Hippolyta's wedding?
400
Where Hermia & Lysander plan to run away to.
What is "From Athens is her house remote seven leagues" (Shakespeare 17)...aka far away from Athens?
400
Death or chastity.
What are the possible consequences of Hermia not marrying Demetrius?
400
The meaning of the word "scrip".
What is "a piece of paper with writing on it"?
400
Female roles are played by...
Who are young adolescent male actors?
500
Carpenter. Joiner. Weaver. Bellows-mender. Tinker. Tailor.
What are the jobs of the tradesmen?
500
Where Quince's play will take place.
Where is at the wedding of Theseus & Hippolyta?
500
One prediction you have about what will happen next. Explain why this is your prediction.
(answers may vary)
500
"Hold, or cut bowstrings" (Shakespeare 31).
What is "keep your word or be disgraced"?
500
Pyramus...a lover or a tyrant?
What is "a lover that kills himself most gallant for love" (Shakespeare 25)?