A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Review Questions Act III, Scene 1
ELA B9 Mr. Smadu
Please answer the following questions in your notebook. Use the play to help you discover the answers.
1. How does Bottom, once again, manage to monopolize the scene? In other words, how does he take the center of attention?
2. List the four problems the mechanicals foresee in their production. Explain how they plan to solve each of these problems.
3. How does Shakespeare create humour when the mechanicals are rehearsing?
4. Why is it fitting that Bottom be transformed by Puck in the manner that he is?
5. There are two plot lines in this scene. What are these two plot lines and how does
Shakespeare connect the two? (hint: The answer has to do with the different sets of characters.)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Review Questions Act III, Scene 2
ELA B9 Mr. Smadu
1. In Puck’s account to Oberon, why is it so lengthy?
2. What else does Puck report?
3. In the discussion between Demetrius and Hermia, does she question Lysander’s love?
4. What does she think has happened to him?
5. How does he answer the accusation?
6. After Hermia leaves, what does Demetrius decide to do?
7. Does Oberon guess what Puck has done?
8. What does Oberon do?
9. On returning, what does Puck report to Oberon?
10. What opinion does Puck express of such human actions?
11. When their clamoring awakens Demetrius, what happens to him?
12. Does Lysander keep on making statements of love to Helena?

13. How does she react?
14. When Hermia enters, what do Lysander and Demetrius do?
15. What does Helena think Hermia is really doing when she reproaches Lysander?
16. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena?
17. What do the two women then do?
18. Does Helena answer in kind?
19. Are the two women the same height?
20. Which woman is shrewish?
21. Was it thought that stature had anything to do with character?
22. Does this apply anywhere?
23. How far does Lysander go in his attitude toward Hermia?
24. Do the men take any part in the ruckus between the women?
25. How does the conflict progress?
26. What do Lysander and Demetrius decide to do as they leave?
27. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena?
28. What does Oberon say to Puck?
29. How does Puck answer?
30. Do Oberon and Puck feel the same way about the confusion?
31. What does Oberon do about it?
32. What would be a further result?
33. What does Oberon intend to do?
34. What reason does Puck give that they should make haste?
35. How does Oberon’s plan work for the lovers?

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III, scene 1 quotations
For each of the quotations, complete the following on a separate sheet of paper: a) Identify the speaker b) State whom the speaker is speaking to c) Describe the circumstances (what is happening in the play when the quotation is spoken) d) Paraphrase the lines in your own words
1. “If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down, every mother’s son and rehearse your parts. Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your speech, enter into that brake: and so every one according to his cue.”
2. “What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
What, a play toward! I’ll be the auditor;
An actor too perhaps, if I see cause.”
3. “Why do they run away? This is a knavery of them to make me afeard.”
4. “ I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:
Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.”
5. “Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.”
6. “My mistress with a monster is in love.
Near to her close and consecrated bower,
While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
Were met together to rehearse a play
Intended for great Theseus’ nuptial day.”
7. “The sun was not so true unto the day
As he to me: would he have stolen away
From sleeping Hermia?”

8. “O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent
To set against me for your merriment:
If you were civil and knew courtesy,
You would not do me thus injury.”
9. “Lysander, keep thy Hermia; I will none:
If e’er I loves her, that love is gone.”
10. “Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
The sisters’ vow, the hours that we have spent,
When we have chid the hasty-footed time
For parting us, - O, is all forgot?”
11. “Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook.
Did you not tell me I should know the man
By the Athenian garments he had on?
And so far blameless proves my enterprise,
That I have ‘nointed an Athenian’s eyes;
And so far am I glad it so did sort,
As this their jangling I esteem a sport.”
12. “Then crush this herb into Lysander’s eye;
Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,
To take from thence all error with his might,
And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.”