MSND Act I Review Game!!

1. MSND Act I Review Game!!

2. 1. Name FOUR characters who are on stage at during SCENE 1

3. 1. Egeus, Theseus, Hippolyta, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena

4. 2 Draw the LOVE TRIANGLE among the four lovers during SCENE 1

5. 2 Hermia Demetrius Lysander Helena

6. 3. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do toward the end of 1.1?

7. 3. They plan to elope by running away to Lysander’s widow Aunt’s home

8. 4. What does league mean?

9. 4. A league is approximately 3.5 miles

10. 5. Name the 6 workmen in the world of “The Play”

11. 5. Quince Bottom Snout Snug Starveling Flute

12. 6. • In 1.2, who says, • “You can play no part but Pyramus, for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man, a proper man as one shall see in a summer’s day, a most lovely gentlemanlike man. Therefore you must needs play Pyramus.”

13. 6. Quince

14. 7. Fill in the blank _______ and ______ The play begins with about to be married. Both are figures of classic mythology – _______________a great warrior and ____________an Amazon warrior-woman (related to Hercules) who was defeated in battle by ___________. The event of their wedding binds Athens, the woods, and the play together.

15. 7. Theseus and Hippolyta!!

16. 8. What does wane mean?

17. 8. Wane (v) Decreasing, moving from a full moon to a new moon “O, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes!” (1.1.4-5)

18. 9. Explain why this line is humorous LYSANDER “You have her father’s love, Demetrius. Let me have Hermia’s. Do you marry him.”

19. 9. It’s funny because Lysander is speaking to Demetrius and about how Egeus (Hermia’s father) loves Demetrius while Hermia herself does not. When he says, “do you marry him,” he’s sarcastically telling Demetrius to marry Egeus instead of Hermia.

20. 10. • Name what each character wants in Scene 1 • Egeus • Theseus • Hermia • Lysander • Demetrius • Helena

21. 10. • Name what each character wants in Scene 1 • Egeus – Hr. to marry D. • Theseus – to marry Hippolyta • Hermia – to marry L. • Lysander – to marry Hr. • Demetrius – to marry Hr. • Helena – to marry D.

22. 11. What are the 3 options Theseus the Duke gives Hermia?

23. 11. 1. To marry Demetrius 2. To die. 3. To become a nun.

24. Hermia’s eyes are __________ and your tongue’s sweet air… …which is like… …extended to… 12 Fill in the blank and boxes using your notes

25. Hermia’s eyes are lodestars and your tongue’s sweet air… More tunable than a lark …which is like… …extended to… To a shepherds ear, when whet is green and hawthorn buds appear

26. 13. Fill in the blanks A different type of love battle is going on in the woods where the king, and the queen, of Fairyland are fighting over custody of an orphan boy. In anger, the king uses magic to make the queen fall in love with an “ass” (donkey) who is really Bottom the weaver transformed by _______helper, . ________ _______ ___________

27. 13. A different type of love battle is going on in the woods where the king, and the queen, of Fairyland are fighting over custody of an orphan boy. In anger, the king uses magic to make the queen fall in love with an “ass” (donkey) who is really Bottom the weaver transformed by Oberon’s helper, . Oberon Titania Puck/Robin Goodfellow

28. 14. What kind of Shakespeareansimile does Lysander use here? LYSANDER (to Hermia) The course of true love never did run smooth… Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!‘ The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. (If lovers ever were matched well)

29. Epic Similes Comparisons that beginsimply, but then extend into elaborate comparisons

30. 15. How is Bottom being an “ass” in 1.2?

31. 15. He wants to play every character in the play even though he was given the lead role.

32. 16. What does Quince mean to say about the part of Pyramus when he says, “A lover that kills himself most gallant for love.” (1.2.22)

33. 16. He means to describe Pyramus as a lover that kills himself bravely for the sake of love.

34. 17. Based on how Scenes 1 AND 2 ended in Act I, what world would you guess Act II will begin in? Why?

35. 17. Act II will probably begin in the world of the woods because Hermia and Lysander plan to elope there, Helena plans to tell Demetrius their plan to elope there, and the workingmen plan to rehearse their play there. Also, it’s the only world the audience hasn’t been introduced to yet.

36. 18. Fill in the blank Quince, Flute, Snout, Snug, Starveling All the while, a group of workingmen come into the woods to rehearse a play for Theseus and Hippolyta’s upcoming wedding. (the “_________”) is a foolish man who writes and directs the tragic love story of “_______________” that ends in a double suicide (sound familiar?). ________

37. 18. Fill in the blank Quince, Flute, Snout, Snug, Starveling All the while, a group of workingmen come into the woods to rehearse a play for Theseus and Hippolyta’s upcoming wedding. (the “_ass_”) is a foolish man who writes and directs the tragic love story of “_Pyramus and Thisbe_” that ends in a double suicide (sound familiar?). Bottom

38. 19. How would we say Helena’s line, “Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.” (1.1.238-239) ?

39. 19. We would probably say something like, “Love can change dirty and gross things, that have no value into beautiful and valuable things.”

40. 20. Label the iambic pentameter in these lines using / to divide the beats How happy some o’er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.

42. 20. How happ/y some/ o’er oth/er some/ can be!/ Through Ath/ens I/ am thought/ as fair/ as she./