Romeo and Juliet

Montagues: (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)  

Capulets: (d)   ​ ​ (e)   ​

• Romeo
• Benvolio
• Mercutio
• Juliet
• Tybalt

What is Shakespeare’s purpose for the prologue? Choose all answers that apply:

• to provide the reader with details about what will happen in the play

• to allow the reader to have a summary so they don’t have to read the play

• to introduce all of the characters

• to set the scene for what is happening between the two families

_{Tybalt: “What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?}

_{Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.”}

_{Benvolio: “I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword,}

_{Or manage it to part these men with me.”}

_{Tybalt: “What, drawn and talk of peace! I hate the word,}

_{​ As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”}

PART A

What type of character is Tybalt?​ (a)  

PART B

Which phrase from the text best supports your answer to Part A?​ ​ (b)  

• Irascible
• "Look upon thy death"
• Peaceful
• Brave
• Smart
• "Put up thy sword"
• "I hate... all Montagues, and thee"
• "Heartless hinds"

PART A

Which thematic idea from the prologue is being developed in Act 1, Scene 1?​ (a)  

PART B

Which phrase from the text best supports your answer to Part A?​ ​ (b)  

• Rivalry
• “Three civil brawls bred of an airy word, By thee
• Family
• Fate
• Love
• "Draw, if you be men"
• "I do not bite my thumb at you, sir"
• "O she is rick in beauty"

_{Lady Cap: “Marry, that 'marry' is the very}

_{theme I came to talk of. Tell me,}

_{daughter Juliet, how stands your}

_{disposition to be married?”}

_{Juliet: “It is an honor that I dream not of.”}

In the excerpt above, what does the word disposition mean?

• Fear

• Choice

• Belief

• Desire

Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge to answer the question.

_{Benvolio: “Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;}

_{One pain is lessened by another's anguish”}

The word ______ provides the best clue to the word anguish as it is used in the sentence above.

Juliet says:

_{“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.”}

How does the author’s use of language in the text above emphasize Juliet’s internal conflict? Select TWO correct answers.

• By announcing her love

• By emphasizing when she found out Romeo is a Montague

• By describing her love as prodigious

• By using a paradox to describe the origin of her love

PART A: Which statement best describes a theme of the play excerpts?

• Love makes people more willing to change and face obstacles.

• Children should be obedient and not go against their parents’ wishes.

• Grudges are easy to overcome, to forgive, and to forget.

• People’s fates are set in stone and cannot be changed.

PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?

• “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross’d lovers take

  their life”

• “The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, / And the continuance of their

  parents’ rage, / Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove”

• “What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, / Nor arm, nor face, nor any other

  part / Belonging to a man.”

• “Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptiz’d; / Henceforth I never will be Romeo."

_{ROMEO: “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 though, her maid, art far more fair than she.}

Shakespeare uses a metaphor in the lines above to convey - 

• Juliet is awake

• Juliet is the bright center of Romeo’s universe

• the symbolism of light

• the contrast between the sun and the moon