Romeo and Juliet Prologue

True or False: When the play starts, the fighting between the two families has recently been getting more 'heated' and intense than it has been in the past.

• True

• False

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According to the article you read in the Pear Deck, Shakespeare's audience believed in fate. What does this mean for the way his audience would have reacted to the characters of Romeo and Juliet?

• No matter what decisions they make throughout the play- both good and bad- the outcome will still be the same, so they would have pitied them because their outcome was out of their control.

• Romeo and Juliet have the ability to change the outcome of their story, but they make terrible decisions along the way which leads to their downfall; the audience would have felt that Romeo and Juliet deserved what they got.

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What ends the fighting between the Capulet and Montague families?

• Romeo and Juliet's deaths

• Romeo's arrest

• Romeo and Juliet running away together and disowning their families

• Romeo and Juliet's marriage to one another

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It is ONLY people who are blood related to the Capulets and Montagues who are fighting 'in the name of' the two families.

• True

• False

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In Act 1, Prologue, the chorus asks the audience to be what?

• Quiet.

• Fair.

• Participatory.

• Patient.

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The prologue is supposed to ______________.

• Reveal the murderers.

• Five a brief overview of the story.

• Describe the town and the time period.

• Tell the ending of the play.

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The chorus promises that anything left out of the prologue will be __________.

• Made clear in the prologues to other acts.

• Obvious to the audience.

• Unimportant.

• Covered during the events of the play.

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Who is Tybalt?

• Romeo's brother

• Juliet's brother

• Romeo's cousin

• Juliet's cousin

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What do we learn about Romeo and Juliet from the prologue? (select ALL correct options)

• They get married.

• They both die.

• Their families are enemies.

• It was fate for them to be in love.

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comes before the beginning of the story.  Tells the setting and gives background

• Prologue

• Dialogue

• Iambic Pentameter

• Foreboding

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