Mid-Summer's first test

Question 1

Thesus

Answer 1

Duke of Athens,betrothed to Hippolyta

Question 2

Hippolyta

Answer 2

Queen of the Amazons,betrothed to Thesus

Question 3

Egeus

Answer 3

Noble and father to Hermia

Question 4

Philostrate

Answer 4

Master of revels to Thesus

Question 5

Hermia

Answer 5

daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander

Question 6

Helena

Answer 6

in love with Demetrius,but not loved by him

Question 7

Lysander

Answer 7

in love with and loved by Hermia

Question 8

Demetrius

Answer 8

in love with Hermia,but not loved by her

Question 9

Peter Quince

Answer 9

a carpenter,speaks the Prolouge( originally played thisbe’s father)

Question 10

Nick Bottom

Answer 10

A weaver,plays Pyramus

Question 11

Francis Flute

Answer 11

a bellows-mender,plays thisbe

Question 12

Snug

Answer 12

a joiner,plays lion

Question 13

Tom Snout

Answer 13

a tinker,plays wall ( originally played pyramus’s father)

Question 14

Robin Starveling

Answer 14

a tailor ,plays moonshine( originally played thisbe’s mother)

Question 15

Oberon

Answer 15

King of fairies

Question 16

Titania

Answer 16

Queen of fairies

Question 17

Puck

Answer 17

Robin Goodfellow and servant to Oberon

Question 18

what are the names of the fairies who attend to Titania

Answer 18

Peaseblossom,Cobweb ,Moth, Mustardseed

Question 19

“Go, Philostrate,
Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments.
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth.
Turn melancholy forth to funerals.
The pale companion is not for our pomp”

Answer 19

• said by Thesus in Act one Scene One
• said it to philostrate (?)
• Go, Philostrate, get the young people of Athens ready to celebrate and have a good time. Sadness is only appropriate for funerals. We don’t want it at our festivities.
• opening of the play Hippolyta & Thesus discussing their wedding day which will occur in four days

Question 20

“Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my sword,

And won thy love,doing thee injuries”

Answer 20

• said by Thesus in act one scene one
• said to hippolyta
• thesus (still talking about the wedding and their love) tells how he won her when she lost a war / battle to him and the price was she must marry him
• Hippolyta, I wooed you with violence, using my sword, and got you to fall in love with me by injuring you.

Question 21

” the course of true love never did run smooth”

Answer 21

• Lysander to Hermia
• After Egeus wants to imply the law of Athens, and Thesus says that Hermia can either die,become a nun,or marry Demetrius.
• Lysander tells how true lovers always have difficulties and obstactles that sytand in the way from the two being together…then goes on to give examples.

Question 22

“Love looks not with the eyes,but with the mind,and therefore is winged by cupid painted blind”

Answer 22

• said by Helena to herself( a soliquoy)
• love is blind, sometimes we fall in love with the wrong people, who are not best/not meant for us.
• helena starts saying after lysander and hermia reveal their plan to elope and be together. Then she starts talking about how happy people can be, and how through Athens everyone thinks shes as fair as Hermia but Demetrius does not.

Question 23

” you can play no part but Pyramus,for Pyramus is

a sweet-faced man,a proper man,as one shall see in a lovely gentleman-like man.Therefor you must needs play pyrmaus”

Answer 23

• Quince said this to Bottom( Act one Scene two)
• You can’t play any part except Pyramus. Because Pyramus is a good-looking man, the most handsome man that you could find on a summer’s day, a lovely gentlemanly man. So you’re the only one who could play Pyramus.
• Quince explains this to bottom after he keeps insisting he should play all the parts

Question 24

” Either i mistake your shape and making quite,or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
called Robin Goodfellow.Are you not he, that frights the maidens of the villagery.”

Answer 24

• one of Titania’s fairies to Puck( act two scene one)
• after they unintentionally meet in the woods .Fairy is doing chores/orders for her queen/Titania
• Unless I’m mistaken, you’re that mischievous and naughty spirit named Robin Goodfellow. Aren’t you the one who goes around scaring the maidens in the village,

Question 25

" I love thee not,therefore pursue me not."

Answer 25

- said by Demetrius to Helena (act two scene one) - Helena is still following him - Demetrius believes that she is a nuisance and is telling her to stop following him because he doesn't love her -"Look, I don’t love you, so stop following me around. "

Question 26

"use me but as your spaniel:spurn me,strike me | Neglect me,lose me.Only give me leave,unworthy as i am,to follow you"

Answer 26

-Helena to Demetrius ( act 2 scene 1) -still following Demetrius in the woods , he tells her again that he doesn't love her and he explains that for that she loves him all the more ,that the more he neglects her or beats her she loves him even more -Treat me like you would treat a dog—kick me, hit me, neglect me, try to lose me. Just let me follow behind you, even though I’m not good enough for you. Could I ask for a worse place in your heart than to be treated as you would treat a dog? And yet I would consider it an honor to be your dog. -This tells the reader that Helena is madly in love and has little self-respect. -at least she would get some attentions if she was a dog -get some regard,even if it was beating/hitting thinks that position would be worthy any position that would have her next to him would be worthy

Question 27

``` " What thou seest,when thou dost wake, do it for thy true love take.love and languish for his sake. be it ounce,or cat,or bear pard,or boar with bristled hair, In thy eye that shall appear, when thou wak'st,it is thy dear, wake when some vile thing is near" ```

Answer 27

Act two scene 2 - oberon to sleeping titania - Fairies sing titania to sleep, go do their work,oberon squeezes the potion on sleeping titania's eyes so that when she wakes up she will fall in love with the first thing that she sees, will be distracted and allow for oberon have the young boy - Whatever you see first when you wake up, think of it as your true love. Love him and yearn for him, even if he’s a lynx, a cat, a bear, a leopard, or a wild boar. Whatever’s there when you wake up will be dear to you. Wake up when something nasty is nearby.

Question 28

"Wherefore was i to this keen mockery born? | When at your hands did i deserve this scorn?"

Answer 28

(act two scene two pg 42) -Helena to Lysander After Helena wakes up Lysander ( how had the potion put on his eyes by puck,mistaking him for Demetrius), because she believes he is dead. When he awakes he falls instantly in love with Helena and confesses this love. Helena believes that he is mocking her and trying to hurt her( emotionally) She is asking him what has she done to him to deserve this cruel treatment -Why does everyone always make fun of me? What have I done to deserve this kind of treatment from you?