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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the actors think has happened to their missing fellow?
(a) He was thrown in prison.
(b) He ran away.
(c) He got lost in a strange city.
(d) He was transported in the woods.

2. How do the actors react to the entrance of their missing fellow in Act 4, Scene 2?
(a) They are nonplussed.
(b) They are thrilled.
(c) They are concerned.
(d) They are dissappointed.

3. What does Bottom insist that their mini-play needs at the beginning of Act 3?
(a) A song.
(b) A prologue.
(c) A narrator.
(d) An epilogue.

4. What character will be missing in the play if the actors cannot find their missing fellow in Act 4, Scene 2?
(a) Thisbe.
(b) Moonshine.
(c) Pyramus.
(d) The Lion.

5. Where is Act 4, Scene 2 played out?
(a) The woods.
(b) Quince's house.
(c) A street in Athens.
(d) Theseus's castle.

6. What does Egeus say when he hears that Hermia tried to elope?
(a) He tells Demetrius she is now his.
(b) He tells Lysander he will be hung for this.
(c) He commands her to return home never to leave.
(d) He tells Hermia she is no longer his daughter.

7. Who does Bottom have to be romantic with in the mini-play?
(a) Snug.
(b) Flute.
(c) Starveling.
(d) Thisbe.

8. Who was married at the same time as Theseus?
(a) Titania and Oberon.
(b) Helena and Demetrius.
(c) Puck and Peasblossom.
(d) Bottom and Cobweb.

9. What news is brought to the actors at the end of Act 4?
(a) Lysander was thrown in prison.
(b) Bottom has been found.
(c) The duke is married.
(d) Snout is injured.

10. What does Bottom feel needs to be explained to all the audiences who see their mini-play?
(a) That it is about love.
(b) That the deaths are not real.
(c) That they are not professional actors.
(d) That the lion is really a man.

11. How does Puck discover that he placed the love potion on the wrong Athenian man?
(a) Oberon tells him.
(b) He hears Helena call Lysander by name.
(c) Titania mocks him for his mistake.
(d) He sees that the man Helena loves still despises him.

12. What reason does Lysander give Hermia for leaving her alone in the woods?
(a) He loves Helena.
(b) He was angry with her.
(c) He went to get her some food.
(d) He thought she had left.

13. Who does Oberon send Puck to find as he places the love juice on Demetrius's eyes?
(a) Titania.
(b) Lysander.
(c) Helena.
(d) Hermia.

14. What does Bottom do when he meets Titania's attendants?
(a) Exclaims at their beauty.
(b) Faints.
(c) Laughs with them.
(d) Mocks their names.

15. What are the actors all doing at the end of Act 4, Scene 2?
(a) Singing.
(b) Getting into costume.
(c) Celebrating.
(d) Rehearsing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which if the following is NOT one of the fairy attendants ordered to serve Bottom?

2. What does Theseus say when he hears that the two couples want to be married?

3. What happens when Titania first wakes up in Act 3, Scene 1?

4. Why does Hermia think Lysander left her alone in the woods?

5. What did Oberon ask Titania to do with the Indian child while she was in love with Bottom?

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