A Midsummer Night's Quiz | 10 Question Literature Multiple Choice Quiz

Answer: Dandelion

Moth is the fourth fairy in Titania's chain.

Answer: Blacksmith

The mechanicals are: Peter Quince the carpenter, Bottom the weaver, Flute the bellows-mender, Starveling the Tailor, Snout the Tinker, and Snug the Joiner.

Answer: Helena loves Lysander

Lysander loves Hermia and Hermia loves Lysander, but Demetrius also loves Hermia even though Helena loves Demetrius. Thanks to the meddling of the fairies, Lysander and Demetrius both love Helena but Hermia still loves Lysander while Helena still only loves Demetrius.

At the end of the play, the enchantment on Lysander is lifted so that he loves Hermia, but Demetrius continues to love Helena.

Answer: Puck and Starveling

Puck's real name is Robin Goodfellow, and the mechanical Starveling (who plays moonshine) is given the first name of Robin as well.

Flute's first name is Francis. Snug is the only mechanical who is never given a first name.

Answer: Theseus and Hippolyta

The whole play begins with Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding announcement-- the lovers only announce their marriages at the end of the play. Pyramus and Thisbe are characters in the play within a play.

Answer: The boy's mother worshiped Titania

"His mother was a votress of my order and for her sake I will not part with him."

Answer: Soldier

More strange than true: I never may believe
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

Answer: Her short stature

"Though she be but little, she is fierce."

Answer: Egeus

Egeus is the curmudgeonly old man who forces his daughter to marry someone she does not love (although his decree is, in the end, ignored).

Answer: She would die

Her father Egeus cites an arcane law to force Hermia to marry Demetrius (although, he doesn't get his wish in the end).