Romeo and Juliet Test Review

Romeo and Juliet primarily takes place in what setting?

• Verona, Italy
• Mantua, Italy 
• Rome, Italy
• Paris, France

Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?

• William Shakespeare
• Dante Allegheri
• Homer
• Bill Shakesapear

Romeo and Juliet is what type of story?

• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Epic Poem
• Long One

Romeo and Juliet is written mostly in what format?

• Blank Verse
• Rhyming Couplets
• Prose
• Sonnets

A drama that ends in catastrophe - most often death - for the main character.

• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Allusion
• Drama

Who tells Romeo that Juliet is dead?

• Balthasar
• Benvolio
• Friar Laurence
• Mercutio

A humorous scene, incident, or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity.

• Comic Relief
• Tragedy
• Irony
• Aside

 A brief reference within a work, to something outside the work that the reader or audience is expected to know.

• Allusion
• Soliloquy
• Aside
• Blank Verse

A character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character in the same work.

• A Foil
• An Allusion
• A Climax
• A Resolution

A speech that a character gives when he or she is alone on stage.

• Soliloquy
• Aside
• Resolution
• Tragedy