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Midsummers Night Dream Study guide

Answer the following questions with full sentences
Act 1 Scene 1

1. Where is the play set?

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2. Who is Theseus/ Hippolyta?
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3. What is the upcoming celebration in Athens? When will it take place?

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4. What complaint has Egus lodged against Hermia?

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5. What has Lysander done to win Hermias love?

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6. Why is Hermia bound to listen to her father?

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7. What are the choices Theseus gives Hermia?

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8. What plan does Hermia and Lysander make?

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9. What does Helena think of Hermia?

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10. What does Helena say in her large monologue?

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11. Draw a love map of the four lovers so far.

12. Shakespeare uses a combination of verse and pros. What does this mean in the text?
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13. What are the conflicts that are to be resolved at the end of the play?
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Act 1 Scene 2:

14. Where is the setting of Scene two?

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15. Who is gathered at the house, and what are they doing?
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16. When will they perform this play?

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17. What is the play about?
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18. What does Bottom want out of his parts?

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19. Make a list of the players and what they are to play:
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20. What are the parts in this scene that serve as comic relief?
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Vocabulary Act 1
Write the line that this vocabulary is found and define it.

Mirth
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Pomp
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Vexation
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Feign
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Abjure
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Austerity
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Extenuate
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Wont
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