Romeo & Juliet - Final Exam

Read the following passage:

   “If you ever disturb our streets again, 

    your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.”  

What consequence is communicated through the Prince’s warning?

• The punishment for any future fighting will be death.

• The Montagues and the Capulets will be banished from Verona.

• Tybalt will be punished by the Prince.

• The servants will be fired from each noble family. 

Read the following passage:

  “My child is yet a stranger in the world,

   She hath not yet seen the change of fourteen years.”

Based on the passage, how old is Juliet?

• 14

• 12

• 13

• 15

Which of the following passages best reveals what Lord Capulet advises Paris to do?

• “Let two more summers wither in her pride/ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.”

• “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; my will to her consent is but a part.”

• “She hath not yet seen the change of fourteen years.”

• “Find the persons out whose names are written there, and to them say My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.”

Which of the following literary terms best describes the purpose for the contrast between Mercutio and Romeo’s character?

• foil

• antagonist

• personification

• villain

Read the incomplete summary:

   • The Prologue says the lovers’ death ends the family feud.

   • Tybalt, nephew of Capulet, hates Montague’s and starts a fight with Benvolio.

   • The Prince warns the families that they will be killed if they disturb the peace again.

   • Romeo, Benvolio & friends decide to crash Capulet party to help Romeo forget Rosaline.

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Which of the following best completes the incomplete summary of Act I?

• Friar Laurence decides Juliet should become a nun.

• Romeo and Juliet meet at the Capulet’s masked ball.

• Lord and Lady Montague worry about their son’s strange behavior.

• The illiterate servant unknowingly invites Montague’s to the Capulet party.  

Read the following passage spoken by Romeo upon seeing Juliet on the balcony. 

“What light through yonder window breaks? 

  It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”   

         What literary device is Romeo using to describe Juliet’s beauty? 

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• foil

Select the passage that best represents a soliloquy. 

• “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…”

• “Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?”

• Juliet: If they do see thee, they will murder thee. 

  Romeo: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye/Than twenty of their swords! Look thou but sweet,/And I am proof against their enmity…

• “Now, good sweet nurse,--O Lord, why look’st thou sad?/ Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;/If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news/By playing it to me with so sour a face.”

What literary device is used in the following passage? (This passage is spoken by Friar Laurence.)

“The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, 

Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light…”

• personification

• simile

• protagonist

• foil

Read the following passage spoken between Romeo and Juliet during the balcony scene. 

Juliet: By whose direction found’st thou out this place? 

Romeo: By Love, that first did prompt me to inquire. 

         He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes. 

What literary device does Romeo use to explain how he arrived at Juliet’s balcony?

• simile

• soliloquy

• personification

• hyperbole

Read the following passage. Use deductive reasoning to determine whom Mercutio is talking about. 

Mercutio: [He is]More than Prince of Cats. O, he’s the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you sing pricksong—keeps time, distance, and proportion…                                                                           Act II sc. 4

• Romeo

• Tybalt

• Benvolio

• Prince Escalus