Final Acts of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Research

A. Write your answers to these questions in your notebooks


1.  The characters that replace Puck, Titania and Oberon, as speakers in the beginning of Act IV, are:

a. Helena, Hermia and Lysander

b. Theseus, Hippolyta and Egeus

c. Bottom, Quince and Snout

d. Hermia, Demetrius and Helena

2. Who confesses to Egeus?

            a. Demetrius

            b. Helena

            c. Hermia

            d. Lysander

3.  Who and what “fixes” the problem, still existing from Act I?

            a. Demetrius’ love

            b. Hermia’s love

            c. Oberon’s love

            d. Lysander

4.  T or F: Bottom is still transformed in the end of Act IV

5.  The “play within a play” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not about:

           a. Pyramus and Thisbe

           b. Pyramus and Thisbe

           c. “Bottom’s Dream”

           d. a Tragedy

6.  What precisely are Philostrate and Theseus discussing at the open of Act V?

             a. affairs of State

             b. the four lovers

             c. the play

             d. dog breeds 

Analysis

7.  The lovers within the play Pyramus and Thisbe are most closely associated with which lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

            a. Titania and Oberon

            b. Titania and Puck

            c. Hermia and Lysander

            d. Helena and Demetrius

8.  Puck is representative of which idea below?

            a. love

            b. the playwright

            c. ridicule

            d. royalty

9.  Bottom is representative of which idea below?

            a. love

            b. the playwright

            c. ridicule

            d. royalty

10.  Oberon and Titania could be most closely related to:

            a. Helena and Lysander

            b. Cordelia and Lear

            c. Hippolyta and Theseus

            d. Hermia and Lysander

11.   What is one idea about love that Shakespeare does not point out in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

            a. it lasts forever

            b. it is madness

            c. it is blind to flaws

            d. it is irrational

B. Research on Shakespeare's Play


Go to settings on your IPad and "allow cookies", so that you are able to access the link to the online library below.

Click on the link below and access the Literature button in the Library.

After you have done that, search for articles on A Midsummer Night's Dream: "Metamorphoses and the Moon" or "A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overview".  Read through the article you have chosen, take notes on the information- enough to write a paragraph.  Write your source's work cited information in your notes as well.

Use the "Notes" icon, from the IPad's desktop, to type the information from your source in a paragraph, followed by the work cited information.  Then, cut and paste your work to an e mail that you will send to me at buyce@bishopmaginn.org.


Research Link
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Summary Study- answer these questions and send your responses to my school e mail.

Act III

Scene I

What exactly are Quince, Snout, Starveling, Bottom, Flute and Snug doing out the woods?  What are some of the concerns they express in the beginning of the scene?  What particular day are they planning for?

What happens to Bottom?  And why is Bottom an appropriate name for him?  What is Titania’s reaction to him and why?

Scene II

Who summarizes Scene I, in Scene II?

What do Oberon and Puck discover has happened?

What does Hermia believe has happened to Lysander?

Who becomes the new object of affection for both Demetrius and Lysander?  And how?

What does Helen believe is happening to her?  And who is the supposed prime culprit to this “crime?”

What is it that Oberon and Puck do, to “fix” the situation that they have created? Explain fully.

What happens to all of the lovers?