Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Review

Where is the setting of the play?

• Mantua

• Venice

• Rome

• Verona

What poetic form is the prologue?

• Free Verse

• Couplet

• Sonnet

• Haiku

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The word "dignity" in line 1 of the Prologue suggests both houses are alike - "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona, where we lay our scene" in...

• violence

• social standing

• sadness

• relation to the Prince

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The Prologue calls Romeo and Juliet "star-crossed lovers." What does "star-crossed" mean?

• unlucky, doomed

• lucky, blessed

• hopeful, happy

• shaped like a star

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At the start of the play, after the fight, the Prince comes out and gives a speech to the crowd telling the Capulets and Montagues to stop. This speech is an example of...

• monologue

• aside

• sonnet

• soliloquy

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What does Prince Escalus say he will do to anyone who fights in the future?

• Put them in jail.

• Make them live together.

• torture them.

• Punish them with death.

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Looking at the highlighted portion, which of the following best translates what Benvolio is saying?

BENVOLIO

Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun

Peer'd forth the golden window of the east,

A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad;

Where, underneath the grove of sycamore

That westward rooteth from the city's side,

So early walking did I see your son:

Towards him I made, but he was ware of me

And stole into the covert of the wood:

I, measuring his affections by my own,

That most are busied when they're most alone,

Pursued my humour not pursuing his,

And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.

MONTAGUE

Many a morning hath he there been seen,

With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.

Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;

But all so soon as the all-cheering sun

Should in the furthest east begin to draw

The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,

Away from the light steals home my heavy son,

And private in his chamber pens himself,

Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out

And makes himself an artificial night:

Black and portentous must this humour prove,

Unless good counsel may the cause remove.

• I saw Romeo walking, but he saw me and ran into the woods. I thought it best to not chase after him.

• Romeo saw me walking restlessly and hid. When I saw him hiding, I laughed, and he ran away.

• Romeo was following me in the early morning hours, but every time I turned to look for him, he hid in the woods. It was weird.

• I was having a great morning until I saw Romeo looking gloomy outside the city walls. I chose to ignore him.

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Why was Romeo is such a sad mood at the beginning of Act 1?

• Romeo was in love with Rosaline, but she did not love him back.

• Romeo was madly in love with Juliet but could not be with her because she is a Capulet.

• Romeo was in love with Juliet, but Juliet did not love him back.

• Romeo was in love with Juliet, and he found out she had to marry another suitor.

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In Act I, when Romeo is in anguish because Rosalind does not love he says, "O loving hate..O heavy lightness...serious vanity, feather of lead..." These are all examples of

• Metaphors

• Similes

• Oxymorons

• Personifications

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What is the problem with Capulet's statement? "Montague is bound as well as I,/ In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,/ For men so old as we to keep the peace."

• Montague is only morally, not legally, bound to keep the peace.

• Montague has already planned Capulet's demise.

• The conflict has spread beyond just Montague and Capulet and affects the younger generations too.

• The penalty is not heavy enough to prevent the feud from continuing.

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