They intend to rehearse the play

Analyze the question: This is a Literature-in-English question on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The "they" who "intend to rehearse the play" are the mechanicals (the rude craftsmen of Athens): Bottom the weaver, Quince the carpenter, Flute the bellows-mender, Snout, Snug, and Starveling.

Explain the concept: In the play, Peter Quince and his fellow workmen want to perform a play for Duke Theseus's wedding to Hippolyta. Quince hands out the parts in Act 1, Scene 2. They agree to rehearse secretly in the woods outside Athens, where they meet Puck and Titania's enchantment falls on Bottom.

Step by step:

1. The play they perform is "The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby."
2. Bottom plays Pyramus, Flute plays Thisby, Quince speaks the Prologue, Snout plays the Wall, Starveling plays Moonshine, and Snug plays the Lion.
3. They rehearse in the palace wood, which sets up the fairy interference.
4. Option A, A Midsummer Night's Dream, is the title of the whole play they appear in, not the play they rehearse.
5. Options C and D are invented distractors.

Answer: The play they intend to rehearse is Pyramus and Thisby, which is option B.

Exam tip: Remember that the "play within a play" in A Midsummer Night's Dream is Pyramus and Thisby. When a question asks what the mechanicals rehearse or perform, think of Quince's troupe and that tragic love story, which is ironically a comedy for the audience.