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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bottom ask of Titania while they are together in the woods?
(a) Rest and comfort.
(b) Food and music.
(c) Water and ointments.
(d) Love.

2. How does Titania feel about Bottom once she awakes and finds him in her bower?
(a) She hates him.
(b) She is furious.
(c) She finds him funny.
(d) She still loves him.

3. What did Oberon tell Puck he had done instead of turning false love true?
(a) Turned true love false.
(b) Spread sorrow and confusion.
(c) Turned false love even falser.
(d) Ended all chances of love.

4. Who does the Fairy King blame for the contention among the four lovers of Athens?
(a) Titania.
(b) Puck.
(c) Oberon.
(d) Theseus.

5. Who brings the actors some news at the end of Act 4?
(a) Ping.
(b) Snug.
(c) Starveling.
(d) Bottom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Puck discover that he placed the love potion on the wrong Athenian man?

2. Why does Helena think Lysander and Demetrius are playing a trick on her when she is alone with them in the woods?

3. What does Titania do with Bottom when her fairy attendants leave her alone with him?

4. Why do Hippolyta and Theseus enter the woods after Titania and Oberon leave?

5. How is Puck told to lead Lysander and Demetrius away from one another?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Oberon want Puck to wait until Titania wakes up to change Bottom's head?

2. What do the Fairy King and Queen want to do at Theseus's wedding and why?

3. How do the other actors respond to what Puck does to Bottom, and why is Bottom so surprised by this reaction?

4. What does Bottom think needs to be explained to the audience at the beginning of their mini-play?

5. What do the actors think have happened to their missing companion?

6. What does Oberon find that will help him reverse the effects of he love juice?

7. Who was married in Act 4, Scene 2?

8. What does Puck do when he sees the actors rehearsing in the woods?

9. What happens to Bottom when he wakes up alone in the woods?

10. What does Theseus do when he finds the two Athenian couples sleeping in the woods?

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