Romeo and Juliet 1.4 Review

Romeo & Juliet

1.4 & 1.5

Review

Act 1

scene 4

Multiple Choice

Identify the only character to have actually been invited to the Capulet Masquerade Ball.

• Romeo

• Benvolio

• Balthasar

• Mercutio

Multiple Choice

Approximately how much time has elapsed since Act 1.1

• 12 hours

• 2 days

• 1 week

• 2 weeks

Multiple Choice

What do we learn is troubling Romeo?

• angering his parents by going to a masque hosted by their enemy

• Rosaline lied to Romeo about swearing a vow of chasity, and is now engaged to Tybalt

• a bad dream; a premonition about his own untimely death

• another fight breaking out at the masque, and his father being put to death

Multiple Choice

Which best describes Romeo's mood in this scene?

• worried and depressed

• excited, but hesitant

• angry and frustrated

• hopeful and excited

Multiple Choice

Which character attempts to lighten the mood, and how does he do so?

• Benvolio, by telling a very long joke about fairies.

• Benvolio, by reenacting the fight scene.

• Mercutio, by making fun of Rosaline's looks.

• Mercutio, by talking about Queen Mab.

Multiple Choice

What does Queen Mab do?

• visits people in their dreams

• tells Cupid which lovers to strike with his bow

• she tells her son, Prince Escalus, who deserves to be punished

• she is the matchmaker in Verona who introduces Romeo and Juliet

Multiple Choice

Mercutio's speech starts out as funny, but quickly turns dark.

Which character stops Mercutio by saying

"Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace! Thou talkst of nothing!" (1.4. 101-102)?

And what does his quote mean?

• Romeo, he means dreams are for kids.

• Romeo, he means Mercutio isn't making any sense.

• Benvolio, he means dreams are for kids.

• Benvolio, he means Mercutio isn't making any sense.

Act 1

scene 5

Multiple Choice

The first thing Romeo does at the Capulet masque is

• ask a servant where Tybalt is.

• ask a servant where Rosaline is.

• ask a servant who Juliet is.

• ask a servant where Capulet is.

Multiple Choice

Romeo falls out of love with Rosaline ____________?

• after Romeo and Juliet kiss

• as soon as he sees Juliet

• when he realizes she is a Capulet

• when Rosaline refuses to dance with him

Multiple Choice

Even though Romeo is wearing a mask, Tybalt recognizes him by his voice. Tybalt immediately reports Romeo's presence to his Uncle Capulet. Capulet tells Tybalt to _________.

• ignore Romeo and leave him alone

• remove Romeo, using force if necessary.

• to fight Romeo, but only after the party has ended

• to wait until tomorrow to seek revenge.

Multiple Choice

Question: Romeo and Juliet's first verbal exchange is in what form?

Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in this;

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,

And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Romeo: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

• free verse

• blank verse

• a sonnet

• a couplet

• a quatrain

Multiple Choice

Throughout their first meeting, Romeo and Juliet compare themselves to______, suggesting ____________.

• lawyers; they will need to negotiate with their parents to be together

• lovers; they will vow to do whatever it takes to be together

• pilgrims; they worship one another, and are on a spiritual journey

• teachers; they have a lot to learn about love

Multiple Choice

Which character informs both Romeo and Juliet, of each other's identity?

• Mercutio

• Tybalt

• Nurse

• Benvolio