9th ELA Final Exam Study Guide Part 2*

What event does the prologue foreshadow?

• the deaths of Romeo and Juliet
• the marriage of Romeo and Juliet
• the death of Romeo's and Juliet's child
• the marriage of Paris and Juliet

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Which statement best describes a theme, or message about life and people, conveyed by the events in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

• Hatred between two families can rob people of what they hold dearest.

• Young people in love are foolish and totally irresponsible.

• Love is fleeting and must be pursued at all costs.

• Misunderstandings can happen at any age and must be forgiven.

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In Act IV, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, when Friar Lawrence enters, he says, "Come, is the bride ready to go to church?" Why is this line dramatically ironic?

• He is late for the wedding service.

• He knows that Juliet has fallen into a deep sleep that resembles death.

• He knows that Juliet is already at the church.

• He realizes that Paris must have fled to Mantua.

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In Act IV, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet, Paris tells Friar Lawrence, "Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death, / And therefore have I little talked of love." What makes Paris's comment an example of dramatic irony?

• Juliet is saddened by the death of Tybalt.

• Juliet is actually weeping over Romeo's banishment.

• Juliet is pretending to cry in order to avoid seeing Paris.

• Juliet was in love with her cousin Tybalt.

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Read the following line from Romeo’s monologue in Act II, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, where Shakespeare employs personification:

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou her maid art far more fair than she:

Be not her maid, since she is envious…

In this quote, Romeo refers to Juliet as the sun and Rosaline as the moon. What does Romeo intend to say in these lines?

• Romeo says he is now in love with Juliet instead of Rosaline.

• Romeo says that Rosaline is more beautiful than Juliet.

• Romeo says that Juliet is envious of Rosaline.

• Romeo says he has love for Juliet and Rosaline.

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Read the following line from Act IV, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, when Capulet speaks of his daughter’s apparent death:

Death lies on her like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

How does Shakespeare use a simile to emphasize the tragedy of the apparent death?

• By comparing Juliet to a flower, Capulet emphasizes that she is too young to die.

• By comparing Juliet to a flower, Capulet emphasizes that she is too beautiful to die.

• By comparing Juliet to a flower with frost on it, Capulet emphasizes that Juliet’s body is cold.

• By comparing Juliet to a flower with frost on it, Capulet emphasizes that he has lost the best daughter in the land.

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Read Juliet’s lines from Act IV, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, as Juliet prepares for the wedding:

Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,

To help me sort such needful ornaments

As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?

How does this example of dramatic irony create tension?

• Readers know that Juliet will miss Nurse.

• Readers know that Juliet is misleading Nurse.

• Readers know that Juliet plans to obey her father.

• Readers know that Nurse is excited to assist Juliet.

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What can readers infer from the following quote from Act V, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?

Montague: O thou untaught! what manners is in this,

To press before thy father to a grave?

• Montague believes that sons who act disobediently die early deaths.

• Montague believes that it is unnatural for sons to die before their fathers.

• Montague believes that sons who display bad manners will die before their time.

• Montague believes that sons who commit suicide deserve to die before their fathers.

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What event do Benvolio's lines from the opening of Act III, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet, hint at, or foreshadow?

And, if we meet, we shall not 'scape a brawl,

For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.

• the conversation the young men have later about Benvolio's quick temper

• the argument Juliet has with her father

• the fight in which Mercutio and Tybalt are killed

• the duel in which Romeo is killed

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Who says, "A plague o' both your houses!"

• Prince Escalus
• Tybalt
• Mercutio
• Friar Laurence

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