R&J Review (jba)

The play begins with:

•  Capulet and Montague servants quarreling over petty insults  

•  Benvolio insults Tybalt

•  Tybalt loses his temper    

• .the officer agitates the two sides

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 Which of the following details is NOT introduced as a complication in Act I?

• The Capulets and the Montagues are feuding 

•  Lord Capulet wants Juliet to marry Paris        

•  Juliet is in love with Paris

• Tybalt is determined to avenge Romeo’s insult

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The purpose of the humor arising from the nurse’s comic character is to:

• suggest that love has a funny side

• indicate that her servants are foolish

• display Shakespeare’s wit

•  furnish relief from the tragedy

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In the balcony scene, several of Juliet’s speeches convey a sense of foreboding. Which one of the following fears is mentioned?

• Romeo will be discovered                         

• Their love is moving too swiftly             

• This love will result in her death

• Romeo could prove faithless

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Dramatic irony occurs:

• whenever Shakespeare stages a fight scene

• when the friar believes he can unite the feuding families

• when Juliet is insecure about Romeo’s true feelings

•  when the audience knows something that the characters in a play do not

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In act III scene 1, Mercutio speaks: 

“Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?”

Mercutio wants Tybalt to:

• Join Mercutio for the evening

• Forfeit the fight

• fight

• leave quietly

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 All of the following consequences result from Romeo’s killing of Tybalt EXCEPT:

•  Juliet decides that Paris is more honorable than Romeo

•  The wedding of Juliet and Paris is decreed in order to offset the unhappiness caused by Tybalt’s death

• Romeo and Juliet cannot reveal their marriage

• Romeo is banished from Verona

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 Friar Laurence sets a plan in motion.  Which of the following items is not part of his plan?

• Juliet should consent to marry Paris

• Juliet should drink the vial of liquid                    

•  Juliet will wake up alone in the family vault

• Romeo will take her to Mantua that very night

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 At the play’s end, both families plan to:

• go into seclusion

• punish the friar for his sin

• hold combined funeral services

• erect a memorial to the lovers

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Which of the following sentences best states a possible theme of the play?

•  love is blind

• arranged marriages are the most successful           

• hatred leads to violence, destruction, and waste

• children, obey your parents

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