10 questions🇬🇧English
🧚 A Midsummer Night's Dream – Year 8
English · Year 8 (KS3) — plot, characters, quotations and themes of Shakespeare's magical comedy
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Questions
At the start of the play, whom does Egeus want his daughter Hermia to marry?
Theseus
Lysander
Oberon
Demetrius
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What are Oberon and Titania quarrelling about?
A changeling boy
A magic crown
The rule of Athens
A stolen love potion
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Puck transforms Bottom's head into the head of which animal?
A lion
A goat
A pig
A donkey
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Which play do the Mechanicals rehearse and perform for Theseus's wedding?
Romeo and Juliet
Pyramus and Thisbe
Cupid and Psyche
Hero and Leander
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Who says, "The course of true love never did run smooth"?
Lysander
Theseus
Bottom
Demetrius
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Who says, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"?
Puck
Oberon
Titania
Egeus
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Why does Puck put the love potion on Lysander's eyes instead of Demetrius's?
Both wear Athenian clothes, so Puck mixes them up
Titania tricks Puck into enchanting Lysander
Oberon secretly orders him to choose Lysander
Puck wants Hermia to be left heartbroken
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At the end of the play, which lover is still under the effect of the love potion?
Hermia
Helena
Lysander
Demetrius
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Helena says, "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." What does she mean?
Love is shaped by imagination, not appearance
Love makes people see clearly
Love starts from wise thinking
Love is based only on beauty
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In the play, Athens is linked with law and order. What is the forest mainly linked with?
Magic, freedom and disorder
Strict rules and duty
Trade and wealth
War and great battles
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