WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the question:
Lysander riddles very prettily;
Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.
But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy Lie further off, in human modesty;
Such separation as may well be said
Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid;
So far be distant, and good night, sweet friend: Thy love ne’er alter, till thy sweet life end!
The speech is made in
- A. Oberon's place
- B. the woods
- C. the Queen's palace
- D. Theseus' palace
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the question:
Lysander riddles very prettily;
Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.
But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy Lie further off, in human modesty;
Such separation as may well be said
Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid;
So far be distant, and good night, sweet friend: Thy love ne’er alter, till thy sweet life end!
The speaker is
- A. Hermia
- B. Helena
- C. Hippolyta
- D. Tatiana
Seven metrical feet in a line of a stanza is
- A. hexametre
- B. heptametre
- C. septet
- D. triolet
A short poem lamenting the death of someone is
- A. an ode
- B. a threnody
- C. a sonnet
- D. an epic
The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is
- A. quatrain
- B. octave
- C. sextet
- D. couplet
Resolution in a literary work is also referred to as
- A. events that increase action
- B. final outcome
- C. the complication
- D. event that increases tension
A character that is built around a single idea or quality is a _______ character.
- A. heroic
- B. flat
- C. choral
- D. sound
A fable is also known as
- A. an apologue
- B. an epigram
- C. a farce
- D. a parody
Jonsey’s speech Your mayoral hopeful is addressed to
- A. the audience
- B. Bassey
- C. no one
- D. himself
Bassy is a ____ in the play.
- A. narrator
- B. director
- C. producer
- D. character
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
(In the Town Hall)
Jonsey: (By himself, centre right, looking sulky) How does anyone keep faith with himself In such an ill-made place?
Bassy, Ba-a-ssy!
Bassy: Here. Anything the matter?
Jonsey: (Moves front stage centre right) Your mayoral hopeful.
In the Town hall is the
- A. setting
- B. location
- C. atmosphere
- D. stage
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
(In the Town Hall)
Jonsey: (By himself, centre right, looking sulky) How does anyone keep faith with himself In such an ill-made place?
Bassy, Ba-a-ssy!
Bassy: Here. Anything the matter?
Jonsey: (Moves front stage centre right) Your mayoral hopeful.
Jonsey’s opening speech illustrates
- A. epilogue
- B. soliloquy
- C. mime
- D. aside
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speaker resolves to tell
- A. Lysander of Hermia's infidelity
- B. Demetrius of Hermia's flight
- C. Egeus of Hermia's flight
- D. Theseus of Hermia's infidelity
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speaker has just said farewell to
- A. Helena
- B. Demetrius
- C. Hermia
- D. Lysander
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speaker’s mood stems from
- A. being rejected by the lover
- B. having to go into the forest
- C. wanting to punish Hermia
- D. meeting with Hermia
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speech shows that the speaker is
- A. high spirits
- B. dissappointed
- C. excited
- D. in a bad mood
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speaker is
- A. Egeus
- B. Hermia
- C. Demetrius
- D. Helena
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon
The dominant literary device used in the extract is
- A. parallelism
- B. apostrophe
- C. personification
- D. antithesis
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon
The extract presents the image of a
- A. enough time
- B. bright day
- C. dark night
- D. calm weather
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
After the speech, the speaker
- A. begins to dance
- B. laughs uncontrollably
- C. falls asleep
- D. starts crying
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I’ll find , and revenge this spite.
Come, thou gentle day illustrates
- A. apostrophe
- B. irony
- C. paradox
- D. euphemism