A Midsummer Night's Dream Final Test: Whole-Play Quiz

A Midsummer Night's Dream Whole Play questions

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

1. Where is A Midsummer Night's Dream set?
   Verona and a Mantuan forest · London and Windsor park · Athens and a nearby enchanted wood · A Greek island ruled by fairies
2. Which four groups of characters does the play interweave?
   Kings, priests, soldiers and witches · Court, young lovers, fairies and mechanicals · Two warring families and their servants · Sailors, shepherds, gods and ghosts
3. Who is Puck?
   Oberon's mischievous servant, Robin Goodfellow · Titania's loyal attendant and messenger · An Athenian weaver turned amateur actor · A spirit who serves in Titania's court
4. Who directs the mechanicals' play?
   Nick Bottom, the weaver · Francis Flute, the bellows-mender · Snug, the joiner · Peter Quince, the carpenter
5. How is order finally restored at the end of the play?
   Theseus banishes the fairies from all Athens · Egeus finally gets his way over Hermia · The couples are matched and the fairies bless them · The lovers return to live in the wood for ever
6. How do Demetrius and Lysander change during the play?
   They turn from enemies into close friends · Their affections switch, then settle, by magic · Both stay loyal to Hermia from first to last · Both decide that they will never marry
7. Who is Hippolyta?
   Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus · Titania's sister and the Fairy Queen · Hermia's mother and Egeus's wife · A mortal loved by Oberon long ago
8. Why does the play end with a play-within-a-play?
   To bring in a new set of characters · To explain how the fairies' magic works · To show Theseus as a gifted amateur actor · It invites us to reflect on theatre and illusion
9. How does Puck stop Lysander and Demetrius from fighting?
   He turns both of the men into stone · He tells Theseus where they are hiding · He fogs the night and leads them astray · He hides both of their swords in brambles
10. What has Oberon and Titania's quarrel done to the natural world?
    Made the wood grow larger each night · Thrown the seasons and weather into chaos · Turned the lovers against one another · Stopped the moon from rising

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Original questions written for Pagine. Quotations are from the public-domain text.