AMND Act 3 Quotes

Question 1

Scene 1: Quotes about how the “ladies” will react to the Mechanicals’ play.

Answer 1

Bot: “First, Pyramus must / draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies can- / not abide.” […]
Snout: “Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?”
Bot: “A lion among ladies is a / most dreadful thing […] Tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner.”

Question 2

Scene 1: Bottom on how the wall must be presented

Answer 2

“Some man or other must present Wall […] and let him hold his / fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus / and Thisbe whisper.”

Question 3

Scene 1: When Puck enters

Answer 3

Puck: “What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here, / So near the cradle of the Fairy Queen?”

Question 4

Scene 1: Mistakes in the play that the Bottom and Flute make

Answer 4

Bot. “Thisbe, the flowers of odious savours sweet-
Quin. “Odorous! Odorous!” […]
Flu. “I’ll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny’s tomb.”
Quin. “Ninus’ tomb, man!”

Question 5

Scene 1: Puck taunts the Mechanicals

Answer 5

“I’ll follow you: I’ll lead you about a round! / Through bog, through bush, through brake, through / briar.”

Question 6

Scene 1: Bottom’s reaction to his friends running away.

Answer 6

“Why do they run away? This is a knavery of them / to make me afeard”

Question 7

Scene 1: Ironic Bottom quotes about being an ass.

Answer 7

“You see an ass-head of your own, / do you? […] I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me, to / fright me, if they could. But I will not stir from this / place, do what they can; I will walk up and down / here, and I will sing, that they shall hear I am not / afraid.” [Sings]

Question 8

Scene 1: Bottom quote on love and reason

Answer 8

Titania: “I love thee.”
Bot. “Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for / that. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love / keep little company together nowadays.”

Question 9

Scene 1: Titania quote about the moon (reference to Artemis/Diana)

Answer 9

“The moon, methinks, looks with a watery eye, / And when she weeps, weeps every little flower, / Lamenting some enforced chastity. / Tie up my love’s tongue, bring him silently.”

Question 10

Scene 2: Puck says Titania is in love with something

Answer 10

“My mistress with a monster is in love.”

Question 11

Scene 2: Puck describes the Mechanicals insultingly

Answer 11

“Rude mechanicals, / That work for bread upon Athenian stalls (…) The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort”

Question 12

Scene 2: What Puck does to the mechanicals

Answer 12

“An ass’s mole I fixed on his head (…) Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong, / Made senseless things begin to do them wrong: / For briars and thorns at their apparel snatch (…) I led them on in distracted fear (…) Titania wak’d, and straightaway lov’d an ass.”

Question 13

Scene 2: Demetrius and Hermia arguing- he is driving her up the wall with anger. She believes he has slain Lysander.

Answer 13

Dem: “I had rather give his carcase to my hounds”
Her: “Out, dog! Out, cur! Thou driv’st me past the bounds / Of maiden’s patience. Has thou slain him then?”

Question 14

Scene 2: Demetrius and Hermia arguing - she makes him out to be a snake

Answer 14

Her: “Could not a worm, an adder, do so much? An adder did it; for with doubler tongue / Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung!”
Dem: “You spend your passion on a mispris’d mood: / I am not guilty of Lysander’s blood”

Question 15

Scene 2: Puck quote about mortals

Answer 15

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

Question 16

Scene 2: Helena’s reaction to Demetrius waking and falling in love with her

Answer 16

“O spite! O hell! I see you are all bent / To set against me for your merriment. (…) You are both rivals, and love Hermia; / And now both rivals to mock Helena.”

Question 17

Scene 2: Helena taking about her childhood friendship with Hermia

Answer 17

“Is all counsel that we two have shar’d, / The sisters’ vows, the hours that we have spent (…) As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds, / Had been incorporate. So we grew together”

Question 18

Scene 2: quotes of Lys and Dem saying they love Helena

Answer 18

Lys: “My love, my life, my soul, fair Helena!” (…)
Dem: “I say I love thee more than he can do.”

Question 19

Scene 2: Hermia’s disbelief about Lys saying he loves Helena

Answer 19

“Hate me? Wherefor? O me! What news, my love? / Am I not Hermia? Are you not Lysander?”

Question 20

Scene 2: Hermia accuses Helena of stealing her love and insults her.

Answer 20

“O me! You juggler! You canker-blossom! / You thief of love! (…) And you are grown so high in his esteem / Because I am so dwarfish and so low? (…) But that my nails can reach into thine eyes.”

Question 21

Scene 2: Helena and Lysander insult Hermia

Answer 21

Hel: “O, when she is angry, she is keen and shrewd; / She was a vixen when she went to school, / And though she be but little, she is fierce.” (…)
Lys: “Get you gone, you dwarf; / You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made; You bead, you acorn.””

Question 22

Scene 2: Oberon plans the whole event to seem a dream

Answer 22

“When they next wake, all this derision / Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision (…) and all things shall be peace.”

Question 23

Scene 2: Puck quotes about the ending of night

Answer 23

Puck: “For night’s swift dragons cut the clouds full fast; / And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger, / At whose approach, ghosts wandering here and there / Troop home to churchyards.” (…)
Obe: “But we are spirits of another sort”

Question 24

Scene 2: Puck confuses the lovers in the forest till they sleep

Answer 24

“Two of both kinds makes up four. / Here she comes, curst and sad: / Cupid is a knavish lad / Thus to make poor females mad!” (…)
“Jack shall have Jill, / Nought shall go ill; / The man shall have his made again, and all shall be well.”