Romeo and Juliet Prologue and Act I Study Guide

Read the following lines from the prologue:

Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hour's traffic of our stage;

The which, if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

RL 9.4 What does the word attend mean as it is used in the excerpt?

• Take part in

• Hear to pass judgement

• Be present at

• Guide toward the stage

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PART A: RL 9.3 Which word best summarizes the personalities Romeo and Juliet's parents based on the prologue's description?

• Stubborn

• Loving

• Ill-fated

• Wealthy

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PART B: RL 9.1 What evidence from the prologue BEST supports the answer to PART A?

• "Two households, both alike in dignity in fair Verona"

• "Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean"

• "A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life"

• "Do with their death bury their parents strife"

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L 9.1 Which is the best way to combine these two sentences?

These lovers are part of quarreling families.

They will mend it by dying.

• These lovers will mend the quarrel between their families by dying.

• These lovers are part of quarreling families, and they will mend it by dying.

• These lovers are part of quarreling families; they will mend by dying.

• By dying-the two quarreling families will mend their love.

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PART A: RL 9.4 What tone is revealed through Shakespeare's word choice in the Prologue?

• Loving

• Conflicted

• Loyal

• Disloyal

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PART B: RL 9.1 Which words from the prologue support the answer to PART A?

• Star-crossed lovers

• Ancient grudge

• Fearful passage

• Strive to mend

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Think about the text Act 1, scene 1 in Romeo and Juliet.

PART A: RL 9.3 How does Romeo react to the fight between the Montagues and Capulets?

• He stays away because he knows his mother is worried.

• He is too lovesick to care about the feud.

• He believes that the Capulets are responsible

• He commends Benvolio for trying to keep the peace.

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PART B: What lines from Act I, scene i provide the BEST support for the answer to PART A?

• “What fray was here? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.”

• "O, where is Romeo? Saw you him today? Right glad I am he was not at this fray.”

• “Close fighting ere I did approach. I drew to part them.”

• “Then turns tears to fire; And these who, often drowned, could never die.”

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