A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 Quiz (Act II)

A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. What are Oberon and Titania quarrelling about?
   Which of them rules the mortal world · Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding · A changeling boy Titania will not give up · The theft of Oberon's magic flower
2. What power does the flower Oberon sends Puck for have?
   Its scent puts any mortal straight to sleep · Its juice makes sleepers love what they first see · Its petals turn men into beasts of the wood · Its root undoes any spell in an instant
3. Why does Oberon tell Puck to anoint the Athenian youth?
   He pities Helena, who is scorned by Demetrius · He wants revenge on Lysander for a slight · He means to stop Theseus's wedding day · Titania has asked him to help the lovers
4. Why does Puck anoint Lysander instead of Demetrius?
   Oberon pointed Lysander out to him · Lysander was sleeping beside Helena · Puck wanted to punish Lysander · Lysander is also wearing Athenian clothes
5. What does the love-juice suggest about love in the play?
   It is chosen by reason after long thought · It never changes once it is given · It can be sudden, irrational and changeable · It belongs only to the young and rich

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