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LA Standard 8.2.4
Act III
My Summary
Allusions:
Malapropisms
What I missed…
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ACT III, SCENE I
1. Why is Bottom worried about the ladies in the audience?
2. What solution does he offer?
3. What problem worries Snout?
4. What solution does Bottom come up with?
5. What’s an ALMANAC? (Look up the definition and write it here…)
6. Why does Bottom propose looking in an almanac?
7. Why does Quince decide to have Starveling carry a thornbush?
8. How does Bottom propose that Snout make the part of The Wall more realistic?
9. How does Puck play tricks on the actors in the woods? (2 ways…)
a. ___________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________
10. How does Bottom react when he realizes that he has the head of an ass?
11. How does Titania react when she sees Bottom?
12. What orders does she give her four tiny fairies?
13. How is Quince’s problem with the lighting of his play similar to Shakespeare’s problem with the
lighting of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in his day? (Hint: Use your notes from the intro videos
about Elizabethan theater to help you answer this question…)
14. Literary Analysis: List and keep track of COINCIDENCE in the plot of the play.
a. Ex: The mechanicals/tradesmen choose to rehearse in the very same part of the woods
where Titania sleeps…this is ironic/coincidental, isn’t it?? 
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c. ________________________________________________________________________
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ACT III, SCENE II
1. How does Oberon learn that Titania is in love with Bottom?
2. How does he feel about that?
3. How does Oberon realize that Puck has made a mistake and bewitched the wrong Athenian
youth?
4. What does Hermia think has happened to Lysander?
5. Why does she think so?
6. On whom does Oberon press the magical nectar now? _________________________
Why? 
7. How does Helena react when Demetrius declares his love?
Why? 
8. Why do Hermia and Helena argue?
9. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men?
10. What is Oberon going to do about Titania?
11. How well does Puck’s trickery work?