English 150C Final Review Question & Answers Correct!!
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English 150C
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English 150C
Please identify the speaker and the addressee of the following quote:
These are the forgeries of jealousy.
And never, since the middle summer's spring,
Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook,
Or in the beachèd margent of the sea,
To dance our ringl...
English 150C Final Review Question &
Answers Correct!!
Please identify the speaker and the addressee of the following quote:
These are the forgeries of jealousy.
And never, since the middle summer's spring,
Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook,
Or in the beachèd margent of the sea,
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.
Select one:
1. Hippolyta to Theseus
2. Hermia to Lysander
3. Titania to Oberon
4. Thisbe to Pyramus - ANSWER3. Titania to Oberon
Which one statement below is true of the following quote?
Full often hath she gossiped by my side,
And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,
Marking th' embarkèd traders on the flood,
When we have laughed to see the sails conceive
And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind.
Select one:
1. One of the play's two main female characters reminisces about her relationship with
the play's other main female character.
2. The speaker remembers an imaginary relationship with her mother who actually died
giving birth to her.
3. The speaker alludes to Neptune because allusions to Neptune would probably recall
for Shakespeare's audience images of sex and romance.
4. The speaker tells a "real" story about how someone became pregnant in a
gynocentric (woman-centered) fashion. - ANSWER(?) 3. The speaker alludes to
Neptune because allusions to Neptune would probably recall for Shakespeare's
audience images of sex and romance.
Which one statement is not true about Midsummer's Eve?
Select one:
1. The festivities were meant to celebrate one's freedom from social/sexual restraints.
,2. The festivities were often celebrated with bonfires.
3. St. John the Baptist feast (celebrated in June) followed immediately after it.
4. It was celebrated at the beginning of Mardi Gras. - ANSWER4. It was celebrated at
the beginning of Mardi Gras.
Hermia's dream of a serpent eating her heart away (3.1), evokes which one of the
following?
Select one:
1. Postlapsarian imagery
2. Prelapsarian imagery
3. A classical image of antiquity
4. An image of metatheater - ANSWER1. Postlapsarian imagery
Please identify the speaker of the following quote:
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended—
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream.
Select one:
a. Puck
b. Pyramus
c. Bottom
d. Oberon - ANSWERa. Puck
Who brings the complaint against Hermia in the opening scene of Midsummer?
Select one:
a. Egeus
b. Demetrius
c. Oberon
d. Helena - ANSWERa. Egeus
Which of the following holidays is NOT associated with Midsummer?
Select one:
a. Halloween (All Hallow's Eve)
b. Valentine's Day
c. St. John the Baptist Feast
d. New Year's Day - ANSWERd. New Year's Day
Who delivers the longest speech in Midsummer?
,Select one:
a. Oberon
b. Hippolyta
c. Theseus
d. Helena - ANSWERd. Helena
When Samuel Johnson in The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) writes that this
character in Midsummer "is generally acknowledged the principal Actor, declares his
inclination to be for a tyrant, for a part of fury, tumult, and noise, such as every young
man pants to perform when he first steps upon the Stage," he is most likely referring to
whom?
Select one:
a. Oberon
b. Theseus
c. Bottom
d. Puck - ANSWERc. Bottom
In what year was the unsuccessful Red Lion Theatre built?
Select one:
a. 1603
b. 1567
c. 1517
d. 1599 - ANSWERb. 1567
When was Queen Elizabeth I on the English throne?
Select one:
a. 1588-1616
b. 1558-1603
c. 1603-1625
d. 1603-1642 - ANSWERb. 1558-1603
Please identify the speaker and the addressee of the following quote:
Four happy days bring in Another moon.
But oh methinks how slow
This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires,
Like to a stepdame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man's revenue.
Select one:
1. Lysander speaking to Hermia
2. Bottom speaking to Hermia
, 3. Theseus speaking to Hippolyta
4. Theseus speaking to Titania - ANSWER3. Theseus speaking to Hippolyta
When Quince, serving as the Prologue to the Pyramus and Thisbe play says, "If we
offend, it is with our good will. / That you should think, we come not offend / But with
good will" (5.1.108-110), he seems to anticipate or recall which one of the following:
Select one:
1. Lines spoken by Theseus at the end of Shakespeare's play
2. Lines spoken by Puck in the epilogue to Shakespeare's play
3. Lines spoken by Theseus at the beginning of Shakespeare's play
4. Lines spoken by Bottom when he and others meet Titania - ANSWER2. Lines spoken
by Puck in the epilogue to Shakespeare's play
Why are the Rude Mechanicals in Midsummer thought of as "rude"?
Select one:
1. Because they are uneducated laborers
2. Because they show poor table manners when they dine with Theseus and Hippolyta
3. Because they have no sense of etiquette when they are in the presence of the royal
characters
4. Because they do not behave properly during the Pyramus and Thisbe play -
ANSWER1. Because they are uneducated laborers
"Like to a double cherry" is used to describe the relationship between which two
characters?
Select one:
1. Helena and Hermia
2. Pyramus and Thisbe
3. The Votress and Thisbe
4. Oberon and Titania - ANSWER1. Helena and Hermia
Please identify the speaker of the following quote:
Now I perceive that she hath made compare
Between our statures. She hath urged her height,
And with her personage, her tall personage,
Her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him.—
And are you grown so high in his esteem
Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
How low am I, thou painted maypole?
Select one:
a. Helena
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