Romeo and Juliet Test Review

How many lines are in a sonnet?

• 14

• 12

• 10

Which characters in the play serve as comic relief?

• Tybalt

• Mercutio

• Prince

• The Nurse

• The servants and musicians

How does Paris die?

• Tybalt kills him at Capulet's party.

• Friar Lawrence kills him for wanting to marry Juliet.

• Romeo kills him at Juliet's grave site.

The prologues for act 1 and 2 are

• monologues

• comic relief

• sonnets

Where is the play set?

• England

• Verona

• France

What worries Juliet about marrying Romeo?

• She thinks he's not over Rosaline.

• She doesn't really like him.

• It is happening too quickly.

When Juliet is sleeping because of the potion, the nurse, her mother, her father , and Paris think she is dead. This is

• dramatic irony

• a sonnet

• a pun

Mercutio and Romeo are foils early in the play because

• Romeo is a Montague

• Mercutio is related to the Prince.

• Romeo is depressed while Mercutio is light-hearted.

What is the difference between a monologue and a soliloquy.

• one is long and one is short.

• a monologue has 14 lines

• a soliloquy is a character's inner thoughts spoken alone on stage

What is the rhyme scheme of an English sonnet? (Also called an Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet)

• abab bcbc cdcd ee

• abba abba cdecde ff

• abab cdcd efef gg

• abcdefghijklmn