1. Dramatic irony means that
A. everything works out in the end.
B. things are going to end very badly for someone.
C. the audience knows something the character or characters don't.
D. the cosmos, state, family, and individual follow the same pattern.
2. One difference between tragedy and comedy is that tragedy
A. usually features an extraordinary hero.
B. uses supernatural elements.
C. uses metaphor and analogy to make its point.
D. makes us laugh at ourselves, not others.
3. In act 3, who says the following lines to Bottom?
Out of this wood do not desire to go:
Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.
I am a spirit of no common rate.
A. Puck
B. Cobweb
C. Oberon
D. Titania
4. Humanists believe that
A. humans and animals existed on the same level.
B. Shakespeare didn't actually write the plays we think he did.
C. life on earth is important in its own right.
D. love is an illusion.
5. Read the following passage from act 3, scene 2.
So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
In this passage, Helena is referring both to herself and to
A. Titania.
B. Hermia.
C. Oberon.
D. Lysander.
6. In act 5, why does Hippolyta believe the lovers' story of their time in the forest?
A. She wants to defend the lovers.
B. The lovers' stories all match.
C. She wants to oppose Egeus.
D. She believes the women because she's a queen.
7. Who speaks the line "Lord, what fools these mortals be"?
A. Cobweb
B. Puck
C. Oberon
D. Mustardseed
8. Who says "The course of true love never did run smooth"?
A. Demetrius
B. Bottom
C. Titania
D. Lysander
9. To whom is Helena speaking when she says, "If you were civil and knew courtesy,/You would not do me thus much injury" (act 3, scene 2)?
A. Hermia only
B. Lysander and Demetrius
C. Hermia and Lysander
D. Demetrius and Hermia
10. Egeus wants his daughter to
A. enter a convent.
B. be executed.
C. marry Demetrius.
D. marry Lysander.
11. During the Renaissance, dramatists began writing about
A. religion.
B. history.
C. everyday people.
D. science.
12. In his comedies, Shakespeare is well known for
A. an unusual use of Middle English.
B. revealing great heroes as common fools.
C. fatally flawed characters.
D. the device of mistaken identity.
13. According to Renaissance philosophy, commoners often represent
A. love.
B. reason.
C. pride.
D. appetite.
14. Which characters exchange these lines-and in what order-in Act I, Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night's Dream?
I frown up him, yet he loves me still.
O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!
A. Oberon followed by Titania
B. Titania followed by Oberon
C. Helena followed by Hermia
D.Hermia followed by Helena
15. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom, Flute, and Snout have names that are puns on
A. malapropisms.
B. their trade or employment.
C. famous people of that day.
D. their physical appearance.
16. In act 1, the reader learns that Hermia's father refuses to allow her to marry Lysander. What do Hermia and Lysander plan to do to counteract his refusal?
A. Take their case to Theseus, Duke of Athens.
B. Go together to talk to Hermia's mother.
C. Run away to be married.
D. Use a potion to convince Hermia's father.
17. Prior to the Renaissance, the human body was seen as
A. sacred dust.
B. proof that humans are "the paragon of animals."
C. a prison for the soul.
D. a beautiful thing.
18. By the Renaissance theory of correspondences, the heart of the family is the
A. grandmother
B. father
C. mother
D. grandfather
19. When are the following lines spoken?
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here,
While these visions did appear.
A. At the very end of act 5
B. When Hermia and Lysander are talking
C. Right before Puck casts a spell on Bottom
D. When Theseus and Hippolyta are talking about their wedding
20. "The best in this kind are but shadows" is
A. Demetrius talking about the women he has loved in the past.
B. Titania talking about men.
C. Bottom talking about his fellow craftsmen.
D. Theseus talking about plays.