Starter quiz

  • In 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', why does Puck transform Bottom's head into that of a donkey?
    • Oberon orders him to.
    • He wants to test the power of the magical potion.
    • He thinks it will be a funny practical joke.  ✓
    • He mistakes Bottom for Demetrius.
    • He wants Helena to fall in love with someone ridiculous.
  • In Puck's first dialogue with a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', what different things does he tell her he has transformed into in the past in order to play practical jokes on people?
    • a chair  ✓
    • an apple  ✓
    • a donkey
    • a horse  ✓
    • Bottom
  • In Act 2, Scene 1 of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Oberon orders Puck to put the magical potion on Demetrius. Puck replies to these orders with, "Fear not, my ______. Your servant shall do so."
    • 'lord' ✓
  • In Act 2, Scene 1 of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', a fairy accuses Puck of misleading "night wanderers and ______ at their harm".
    • 'laughing' ✓
  • In 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', there are high and low status and through them, Shakespeare explores ideas around ______, a system by which people or things are ranked.
    • 'hierarchy' ✓
  • The first audiences of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' were Elizabethan. Hierarchy was incredibly important to them. They believed in a hierarchical system called ______
    • 'The Great Chain of Being' ✓
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