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What upcoming event is Theseus and Hippolyta discussing at the play's start?
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a security breach
the enchanted forest
Egueus's request
their upcoming wedding
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Why is Egeus so upset? What request does he approach Duke Theseus with and ask him to enforce?
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He wishes for His daughter, Hermia, to be married to Lysander, but she loves and desires someone else.
He thinks he is paying too much money in dowry offerings.
He wants to stop the marriage of Duke Theseus to Hippolyta.
He wishes for his daughter, Hermia, to be married to Demetrius, but she loves and desires someone else.
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What upcoming event is Theseus and Hippolyta discussing at the play's start?
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Why is Egeus so upset? What request does he approach Duke Theseus with and ask him to enforce?
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What will be Hermia's fate if she does not marry the man her father chooses for her?
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To what do Lysander and Hermia agree in order to escape her fate for disobedience toward her father?
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How does Hippolyta come to be betrothed (engaged to be married) to Theseus?
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What does Helena hope will happen when she tells Demetrius about Hermia & Lysander's flight into the woods?
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Why is Oberon angry with his queen, Titania?
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After she awakens from a spell, why does Titania willingly give Oberon the child she was fiercely protecting?
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When given the part of a woman, Flute gets upset because he will have to shave his new beard. Why not just ask a woman to play a woman's part in the play?
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Why does Lysander tell Hermia that "the course of true love never did run smooth" in Act 1?
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Helena dotes on an inconstant man who does not love her back. What does Helena mean when she says the following: "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind."
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Quince (a mechanical) says the following: "...meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse." Why do the mechanicals want to rehearse in the woods?
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What does Oberon send Puck to fetch for him in order to get revenge on Titania?
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Upon overhearing Demetrius and Helena, what does Oberon command Puck to do with the flower out of pity for Helena and disdain for Demetrius?
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Upon whose eyes does Puck (MISTAKENLY) apply the potion?
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What is Helena's reaction to Lysander's sudden words of love for her when she stumbles upon him sleeping on the forest floor?
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When Hermia awakens alone in the forest, she awakens from a (symbolic) dream. What does she dream is happening to her?
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What is the meaning of the word VILE in this act? Remember, Oberon wants Titania to fall in love with a "vile" and hideous creature.
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What does Demetrius mean when he says, " The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me!" in Act 2?
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Why can't Lysander and Demetrius find each other to fight to the death in the forest during the night?
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Finding the two couples asleep in the wood and learning of their more balanced love, what order does Theseus give?
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Why are the mechanicals nervous and anxious to perform their play before the Duke at his wedding?
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What do the fairies do after the palace goes to sleep following the wedding ceremonies?
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Who does Puck directly address/speak to at the end of Act 5?
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Whose complaint about his daughter propels the action in the play forward when he approaches Theseus and asks him to force his daughter to marry a man he selects for her?
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Who says the following in his anger toward his daughter choice in a man: "And my gracious Duke, be is so she will not here before your grace consent to marry with Demetrius, I beg the ancient privilege of Athens: As she is mine, I may dispose of her; which either shall be to this gentleman, or to her death, according to our law immediately provided in that case."
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Who are the regular townsmen/mechanicals, and what do they plan to do as a group?
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Who says the following to her best friend when she is confiding in her about her secret plan to escape her fate: "Take comfort: He no more shall see my face; Lysander and myself shall fly this place."
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Who says the following: "...But she being mortal, of that boy did die: And for her sake do I rear up her boy, and for her sake I will not part with him."
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Who says the following: "Fetch me that flower; The herb I show'd thee once: The juice of it, on sleeping eyelids laid, will make any man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees."
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Who says the following: "What thou seest, when thou dost wake, do it for thy true-love take: Love, and languish for his sake: Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, Pard, or boar with bristled hair, in thy eye that shall appear when thou wak'st, it is thy dear. Wake when something vile is near."
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After watching the chaos and craziness of the mortals in the woods, who says the following: " Lord what fools these mortals be!"
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Who says the following: "And here the maiden sleeping sound, on the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! She durst not lie near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw all the power and this charm doth owe. When thou wak'st, let love forbid sleep his seat on thy eyelid! So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon."
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Who says the following: "What visions have I seen? Methought I was enamoured of an ass!"
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Who says the following: "I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream."
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Who says the following in an epilogue at the end of the play: "If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended."
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Who reigns as king and queen over the fairies?
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Who is the mischievious jester to Oberon and is otherwise known as Robin Goodfellow?
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Who are the three main groupings of characters?
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Who is a man convinced of his abilities as an actor, and enthusiastic to the point of being a nuisance?
