solution to the Quiz test on Mid Summer Night's Dream

Solutions to the brief questions of MSND:

1.       Lysander and Hermia are in love with each other, but Hermia's father, Egeus, favors a second suitor, Demetrius, for his daughter. Demetrius has formerly been in love with Helena but has deserted her, although she still loves him. 

2.       Hermia goes to the forest to meet Lysander with whom she is going to his aunt's to be married. Helena knows of it, so tells Demetrius so he can pursue them, she follows that she may watch him — Lines 250-251 — Scene i. 

3.       Bottom is a weaver, a thinker, an egotist and a tyrant. 

4.       These fairies remind one more of England than Greece. The references to the cowslips and to the housewife churning are truly English. 

5.       The first fifteen lines of scene i are most fairy-like. 

6.       The magic plant, love-in-idleness, makes the one to whom it is applied love the first thing he or she sees upon awaking. Oberon means to have it applied to Titania, so that she will give up the page before he will remove the charm from her. 

7.       Bottom is turned into an ass only in the shape of his head and what he wishes to eat. He still thinks as the Weaver Bottom did. 

8.       Pyramus makes the funniest blunders in language; his bombastic and dictatorial manner causes him to do this. 

9.       Some of the popular beliefs are that whatever is wished on Midsummer's Night will come true; that after night-fall the fairies are all-powerful; that they often steal new brides, or turn cowslips sprinkled on the doorstep into flames to burn those who have harmed them. 

10.    Puck drips the potion on Lysander's eyes so he will love his former sweetheart, Hermia.

11.    They are discussing their wedding which is supposed to take place in four days' time

12.    He wants one written so that his character can read it to the audience, assuring them that

no harm will come to the actors either by sword or by lion. He thinks the ladies will go into a swoon or else panic.

13.    He has changed his head into that of an ass.

13.14. Titania was instructing her fairies to bring Bottom to her bower.

13.15. He tells Oberon that Titania is in love with a monster, an ass; and that he has successfully dosed the Athenian's eyes.

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16. He realizes that another Athenian youth was dosed by Puck by mistake and that now a

maid has lost her true love (Lysander) and the intended youth (Demetrius) is still

repulsing Helena. While Puck is away, Oberon charms Demetrius to love Helena when

he sees her again.

17. She is now loved by both Lysander and Demetrius and she believes that they have

conspired to play a cruel prank on her.

18.She thinks that Hermia has joined in the malicious prank with Lysander and Demetrius

19. She thinks that out of jealousy she has made known her taller height and therefore her

greater value of the two maids.

20. They are going to fight over Helena, so Oberon has Puck make the night darken and

cloudy and use his voice to lead them away from each other and to sleep.