Romeo & Juliet Act 1 Review

In Act I, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet, what penalty does the Prince threaten if further violence breaks out between the Capulets and the Montagues?

• a fine on those who participate in the violence

• death to those who participate in the violence

• loss of the participants' land and properties

• exile of the participants from Verona

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According to the details in Act I of Romeo and Juliet, who is Rosaline?

• Tybalt's sister

• Lady Capulet

• Benvolio's wife

• a woman Romeo loves

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Which statement is the best summary of Benvolio's role in Act I?

• He shows concern for Romeo and tries to calm the fighting families.

• He discusses Romeo's private feelings with his uncle, Romeo's father.

• He tries to defend Romeo and threatens to challenge Tybalt to a duel.

• He agrees to accompany Romeo to the masked feast at the Capulet's home.

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What is the main purpose of the prologue to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

• to quiet down the audience

• to praise the noble Prince Escalus

• to set the scene for the play as a whole

• to explain the history of the Montague-Capulet feud

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Which of the following quotations from Romeo and Juliet, Act I, contains an oxymoron?

• "O heavy lightness, serious vanity, / Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms...!"

• "One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun / Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."

• "On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen; / That shall she, marry; I remember it well."

• "Take our good meaning, for our judgement sits / Five times in that ere once in our five wits."

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Read this speech from Romeo and Juliet, Act I.

Juliet: My only love sprung from my only hate,

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Prodigious birth of love it is to me,

That I must love a loathed enemy.

Which of the following best describes the effect of Juliet's use of oxymoron in this speech?

• It pokes fun at the long-standing feud between the lovers' families.

• It reassures the audience that a happy ending awaits the lovers.

• It emphasizes the seriousness of the obstacle facing the lovers.

• It explains why the lovers are attracted to one another.

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Which of the following lines from Romeo and Juliet contains an oxymoron?

• "Indeed I should have asked you that before."

• "Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate..."

• "Thou knowest my daughter's of a pretty age."

• "We'll measure them a measure and be gone."

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Which answer choice best summarizes this speech that Lady Capulet makes about Paris in Act I, Scene 3?

Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face

And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;

Examine every married lineament,

And see how one another lends content;

And what obscured in this fair volume lies

Find written in the margent of his eyes.

• Paris is already married.

• Paris is large and strong.

• Paris is like a beautiful book.

• Paris is an imaginative writer.

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What is most likely the meaning of heretics in the following sentence?

The people who left the cult were shunned by the remaining members and treated as heretics.

• people who live by a strict set of rules and customs

• people who constantly and habitually break the law

• people who do not believe in a given set of religious rules

• people who share a given cultural and ethnic background

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If a mutiny occurs in the streets, which of the following would a passerby most likely observe? Base your answer on the meaning of mutiny from the text.

• a group of young people fighting and brawling

• a crossing guard holding up traffic for schoolchildren

• a crowd cheering on the sidewalks as a parade marches by

• a construction crew working busily with drills and heavy equipment

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