1.2.1 A Midsummer Night's Dream Quiz: Pearson Edexcel English Literature, Unit 1

The 20 questions

1. Which city is the setting for the court action of A Midsummer Night's Dream?

   • Illyria
   • Venice
   • Athens
   • Verona

2. Whom does Egeus demand that his daughter Hermia marry at the start of the play?

   • Philostrate
   • Demetrius
   • Theseus
   • Lysander

3. What potential punishment does Theseus offer Hermia besides death if she disobeys her father?

   • Public flogging
   • Becoming a nun
   • Lifelong imprisonment
   • Perpetual banishment

4. Who is the fairy king who quarrels with his queen over a changeling boy?

   • Oberon
   • Bottom
   • Theseus
   • Puck

5. Which mischievous sprite applies the love juice to the eyes of the sleeping lovers?

   • Puck
   • Peaseblossom
   • Oberon
   • Cobweb

6. What physical transformation does Puck give to Bottom in the woods?

   • A donkey's tail
   • A pig's snout
   • An ass's head
   • A goat's horns

7. What is the title of the play performed by the mechanicals in Act V?

   • Romeo and Juliet
   • Hero and Leander
   • Pyramus and Thisbe
   • Troilus and Cressida

8. Which two men both fall in love with Helena due to Puck's magic juice?

   • Oberon and Titania
   • Quince and Bottom
   • Lysander and Demetrius
   • Theseus and Egeus

9. What effect does the juice of love-in-idleness have on a sleeping person?

   • Loves first sight
   • Causes instant hatred
   • Grants eternal youth
   • Induces deep sleep

10. How does Theseus view the lovers' accounts of their night in the woods?

    • As imaginative fantasy
    • As divine prophecy
    • As treasonous lies
    • As literal truth

11. What two things does Puck ask of the audience in his final speech?

    • Pity and forgiveness
    • Silence and money
    • Laughter and tears
    • Pardon and applause

12. Which phrase best describes Helena's feelings during her initial pursuit of Demetrius?

    • Unrequited devotion
    • Calculated cruelty
    • Arrogant indifference
    • Mutual affection

13. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, what does the court represent in contrast to the wood?

    • Fairy enchantment
    • Order and law
    • Disorder and chaos
    • Magic and transformation

14. Which view of romantic love is most directly demonstrated by the magic in the wood?

    • Constant and logical
    • Predictable and calm
    • Irrational and fickle
    • Purely financial

15. Why does Oberon order Puck to reverse the magic on the Athenian lovers?

    • To separate Hermia
    • To restore harmony
    • To punish Demetrius
    • To humiliate Lysander

16. What main dramatic function does the mechanicals' play serve in the final act?

    • Political warning
    • Musical interlude
    • Tragic catharsis
    • Comic satire

17. How does A Midsummer Night's Dream present Egeus and his legal demands?

    • Merciful wisdom
    • Divine justice
    • Rigid patriarchal authority
    • Playful guidance

18. What action do Oberon and Titania perform at the very end of the play?

    • Bless marriages
    • Curse lovers
    • Banished fairies
    • Marry Theseus

19. Which characters does Theseus explicitly link together regarding the power of imagination?

    • Rulers, soldiers, tricksters
    • Lovers, madmen, poets
    • Fairies, kings, servants
    • Lovers, mechanicals, gods

20. How is the conflict between the four Athenian lovers ultimately resolved?

    • Mutual separation
    • Corrected pairings
    • Trial by combat
    • Royal decree

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