A Midsummer Night's Dream Quiz Acts IV and V

Why does Titania give Oberon the child?

• She wants to please Oberon.

• She regrets her selfishness and wants to make amends.

• Oberon has threatened her, and she does it out of fear.

• She no longer cares for him now that she has Bottom.

How does Oberon find Titania and Bottom?

• They are having a feast.

• They are playing with the child.

• They are asleep in each other's arms.

• They are preparing for their wedding.

Why does Oberon remove the spell he cast over the queen?

• He has the boy, and he pities her silly new love-pet. He wants her back to her true self.

• It was part of the bargain he made with Puck, and he has to live up to it.

• He can only cast one spell at a time, and he wants to cast one on someone else now.

• He had a dream that the gods would punish him if he didn't remove it.

Finding the two couples asleep in the wood, and learning of their more balanced love, what order does Theseus give?

• He tells them to wait a few years until they are older and then marry.

• He banishes all of them from Athens for the trouble they have caused.

• He orders that they should follow him and Hippolyta to be married in the temple.

• He orders his men to find and imprison Puck.

What news does Bottom bring his companions?

• He has a part in the entertainment, but the rest do not.

• Their play was not well-received, and they have been asked to leave.

• The Duke liked them but not their play. They are to write a new play and perform again the next day.

• Their play has been chosen by the Duke as an entertainment. They must now get ready and meet at the palace.

Why do you think Shakespeare included a play within a play?

• Pyramus and Thisbe is an ancient tale well known to audiences in Shakespeare's time. The audience would appreciate the jests and comments.

• He had been commissioned to write a play of a certain length, and his fell short. The play within a play was filler to use up time.

• He uses it as a semi-veiled political speech.

• He used it in place of an intermission, to help refocus the audience's attention.

What do the fairies do after the palace goes to sleep?

• They go to sleep as well.

• Oberon sends them out to sing and dance and bless the new lovers on their wedding nights.

• They go back to the woods to clean up the damage all of the lovers had done.

• They go out to play tricks on the actors.

Whom does Puck address at the play's end?

• He talks to Oberon.

• He talks to the lovers.

• He talks to the playwright.

• He talks to the audience.

The last speech has many purposes. Which of these is not one of them?

• It closes the play.

• It thanks the audience.

• It asks that the audience enjoy or else pardon a frivolous entertainment.

• It reminds the audience that the actors will gladly accept monetary donations after the play.