Romeo & Juliet Unit Test Review

Which statement best describes a theme, or message about life and people, conveyed by the events in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

• Hatred between two families can rob people of what they hold dearest.

• Young people in love are foolish and totally irresponsible.

• Love is fleeting and must be pursued at all costs.

• Misunderstandings can happen at any age and must be forgiven.

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Which of the following best states a theme of Romeo and Juliet?

• Love paves the way for peace.

• The power of nature overcomes the will of man.

• Love is a gentle force that brings families together.

• Actions in haste can bring about destruction.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

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In Act IV, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, when Friar Lawrence enters, he says, "Come, is the bride ready to go to church?" Why is this line dramatically ironic?

• He is late for the wedding service.

• He knows that Juliet has fallen into a deep sleep that resembles death.

• He knows that Juliet is already at the church.

• He realizes that Paris must have fled to Mantua.

In Act IV, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet, Paris tells Friar Lawrence, "Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death, / And therefore have I little talked of love." What makes Paris's comment an example of dramatic irony?

• Juliet is saddened by the death of Tybalt.

• Juliet is actually weeping over Romeo's banishment.

• Juliet is pretending to cry in order to avoid seeing Paris.

• Juliet was in love with her cousin Tybalt.

Which of the following quotes from Act III, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, illustrates Shakespeare’s use of comic relief?

• Lady Capulet: Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn,/The gallant, young, and noble gentleman,/The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church,/Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.

• Capulet: Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!/I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,/Or never after look me in the face./Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me.

• Juliet: Is there no pity sitting in the clouds/That sees into the bottom of my grief?—/O sweet my mother, cast me not away!/Delay this marriage for a month, a week.

• Nurse: I think it best you married with the county./ O, he's a lovely gentleman!/ Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,/Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye/As Paris hath.

In Romeo and Juliet, which of the following illustrates Shakespeare's use of comic relief?

• A servant explains to Capulet that cooks should lick their own fingers.

• Capulet believes that Juliet is dead when she is really only sleeping.

• "Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up; For well you know this is a pitiful case."

• A nurse claims to be too tired to give Juliet Romeo's message.

Read the following line from Romeo’s monologue in Act II, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, where Shakespeare employs personification:

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou her maid art far more fair than she:

Be not her maid, since she is envious…

In this quote, Romeo refers to Juliet as the sun and Rosaline as the moon. What does Romeo intend to say in these lines?

• Romeo says he is now in love with Juliet instead of Rosaline.

• Romeo says that Rosaline is more beautiful than Juliet.

• Romeo says that Juliet is envious of Rosaline.

• Romeo says he has love for Juliet and Rosaline.

What is the effect of the metaphor in the following line from Romeo’s speech to Juliet from Act I, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet?

If I profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine,

• It exaggerates the fact that Romeo is looking for love and that he thinks Juliet is the answer.

• It creates a vivid picture of Romeo holding Juliet’s hand in readers’ minds.

• It shows that Romeo feels that he does not deserve to be in Juliet's presence.

• It creates suspense because readers wonder what happens next between Romeo and Juliet.

Read the following line from Act IV, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, when Capulet speaks of his daughter’s apparent death:

Death lies on her like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

How does Shakespeare use a simile to emphasize the tragedy of the apparent death?

• By comparing Juliet to a flower, Capulet emphasizes that she is too young to die.

• By comparing Juliet to a flower, Capulet emphasizes that she is too beautiful to die.

• By comparing Juliet to a flower with frost on it, Capulet emphasizes that Juliet’s body is cold.

• By comparing Juliet to a flower with frost on it, Capulet emphasizes that he has lost the best daughter in the land.

Read Juliet’s lines from Act IV, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, as Juliet prepares for the wedding:

Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,

To help me sort such needful ornaments

As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?

How does this example of dramatic irony create tension?

• Readers know that Juliet will miss Nurse.

• Readers know that Juliet is misleading Nurse.

• Readers know that Juliet plans to obey her father.

• Readers know that Nurse is excited to assist Juliet.