Romeo and Juliet Summative Review

Shakespeare uses the prologue to inform the audience that _____.

• Juliet will become a widow

• Romeo is a Capulet and Juliet is a Montague

• Romeo will become a fugitive

• the lovers from two feuding families will die

What is the central conflict for the play?

• Man vs Man

• Man vs Self

• Man vs God

• Man vs Society

What insulting gesture do the servants make at the beginning of the play?

• the gesture of cutting one’s throat

• the gesture of biting one’s thumb at someone.

• the gesture of pointing the middle finger at someone

• a crude arm gesture of pointing at someone’s mother

Who said: What? "You take out your sword and then talk about peace? I hate the word peace like I hate hell, all Montagues, and you. Let’s go at it, coward."?

• Benvolio

• Tybalt

• Mercutio

• Romeo

In Act I. Scene iv, who uses puns (play on words) to try to cheer up Romeo as they are on the way to the party?

• Paris

• Mercutio

• Tybalt

• Benvolio

When Romeo talks about how family loyalty has caused hatred for the opposing family, he says O loving hate! Love that comes from nothing! Sad happiness! Serious foolishness! Beautiful things muddled together into an ugly mess! (Act I.Scenei.174-178).

This is an example of what literary device?

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

• oxymoron

According to Friar Laurence, how are humans like plants?

• They both can heal the sick and curse the evil.

• They both need sunlight and water to grow.

• They both have medicine and poison.

• Humans need to eat plants to live.

In Romeo’s soliloquy in Act II. Scene ii, to whom or to what does the last word she refer? But soft what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east and Juliet is the sun. 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.

• Juliet

• the moon

• the sun

• Juliet’s maid

If elements of a tragedy include an unhappy ending or downfall of a main character who has good intentions, which of the following supports this idea?

• The hero’s motives are blocked by his enemy.

• The hero has a noble desire for others to experience happiness.

• The hero’s motives are good and noble, but they are also misguided.

• The hero lets his anger over his own punishment motivate his revenge.

Read the following lines from Act V. Scene iii: See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys and love. And I, for winking at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished. Which of the following themes is most clearly suggested by Escalus’s words?

• All’s well that ends well

• Children should obey their parents.

• Feuds and vengeance bring tragedy.

• The punishment should fit the crime.