The document is a film response assignment for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream that contains 15 multiple choice questions about the plot of the play. The questions ask about key details like the location of the play, the event being prepared for at the beginning, who Hermia's father decrees she must marry, who she actually loves and flees into the forest with, and other plot points involving the characters of the fairy king Oberon and his wife Titania, their servant Puck, and the mixed up lovers in the forest.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM FILM RESPONSE
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Please answer the following questions in at least one full sentence per question.
1. In what location is the play set?
2. As the play begins, preparations are being
made for what type of event?
3. Hermia’s father decrees that she is to be
married to whom?
4. Who does Hermia actually love, and
consequently escape into the forest with?
5. Which character is hopelessly smitten with
Demetrius, and follows him into the forest?
6. What is the name of the faerie king who rules
the forest?
7. What is the name of the faerie king’s lovable
but hapless messenger?
8. Who is the faerie king’s estranged wife, the
faerie queen?
9. The faerie king’s messenger accidently causes
both Lysander and Demetrius to fall in love with
whom?
10. When the faerie king’s messenger manages
to administer the potion to the faerie queen,
with whom does she fall in love?
11. The faerie queen’s object of desire is
consequently transformed into what type of
creature?
12. Which character ultimately sets everything
right, by reconnecting the proper couples?
13. Once he is restored to his original form, the
faerie queen’s lover performed in a play of what
title?
14. At whose wedding is the play performed?
15. Is the play performed at the wedding
received in the way its actors originally hoped?