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Act 1 Studyguide

This document contains a study guide for Act 1 of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides questions to help guide the reader's understanding of the key events, characters, and conflicts introduced in Act 1. These include setting the play in Athens, introducing the main characters such as Theseus, Hippolyta, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena, and outlining the conflicts around Hermia being forced to marry against her will. It also summarizes the plan for Hermia and Lysander to flee into the woods to escape, as well as introducing the mechanics players in a separate scene and their rehearsal of a play to be performed.

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Act 1 Studyguide

This document contains a study guide for Act 1 of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides questions to help guide the reader's understanding of the key events, characters, and conflicts introduced in Act 1. These include setting the play in Athens, introducing the main characters such as Theseus, Hippolyta, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena, and outlining the conflicts around Hermia being forced to marry against her will. It also summarizes the plan for Hermia and Lysander to flee into the woods to escape, as well as introducing the mechanics players in a separate scene and their rehearsal of a play to be performed.

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Eng 10 Unit 2 WK 6 Date assigned _________Date Name____________

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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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