WorksheetsRomeo and Juliet Test Review
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 35mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Romeo and Juliet primarily takes place in what setting?
a)
Verona, Italy
b)
Mantua, Italy
c)
Rome, Italy
d)
Paris, France
2.
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
a)
William Shakespeare
b)
Dante Allegheri
c)
Homer
d)
Bill Shakesapear
3.
Romeo and Juliet is what type of story?
a)
Tragedy
b)
Comedy
c)
Epic Poem
d)
Long One
4.
Romeo and Juliet is written mostly in what format?
a)
Blank Verse
b)
Rhyming Couplets
c)
Prose
d)
Sonnets
5.
A drama that ends in catastrophe - most often death - for the main character.
a)
Tragedy
b)
Comedy
c)
Allusion
d)
Drama
6.
Who tells Romeo that Juliet is dead?
a)
Balthasar
b)
Benvolio
c)
Friar Laurence
d)
Mercutio
7.
A humorous scene, incident, or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity.
a)
Comic Relief
b)
Tragedy
c)
Irony
d)
Aside
8.
A brief reference within a work, to something outside the work that the reader or audience is expected to know.
a)
Allusion
b)
Soliloquy
c)
Aside
d)
Blank Verse
9.
A character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character in the same work.
a)
A Foil
b)
An Allusion
c)
A Climax
d)
A Resolution
10.
A speech that a character gives when he or she is alone on stage.
a)
Soliloquy
b)
Aside
c)
Resolution
d)
Tragedy
11.
A character's remark, either to the audience or to another character, that others on stage are not supposed to hear.
a)
Aside
b)
Soliloquy
c)
Comic Relief
d)
Conflict
12.
A form of poetry that uses unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
a)
Blank Verse
b)
Rhyming Couplets
c)
Prose
d)
Sonnets
13.
Two lines that rhyme.
a)
Rhyming Couplet
b)
Poetry
c)
Iambic Pentameter
d)
Blank Verse
14.
Romeo's father.
a)
Montague
b)
Capulet
c)
Friar Laurence
d)
Never named
15.
Dies of grief when Romeo is exiled.
a)
Lady Montague
b)
Lady Capulet
c)
Juliet
d)
No one
16.
Friend of Romeo who tries to keep the peace.
a)
Balthasar
b)
Benvolio
c)
Mercutio
d)
Abram
17.
Servant of the Montagues who is involved in the street brawl.
a)
Sampson
b)
Gregory
c)
Abram
d)
Peter
18.
Ruler of Verona
a)
Prince Escalus
b)
Count Paris
c)
King Aeolus
d)
Friar Laurence
19.
Kinsman of the Prince and friend of Romeo; gets killed by Tybalt
a)
Benvolio
b)
Mercutio
c)
Paris
d)
Balthasar
20.
Helps Romeo and Juliet by marrying them and making plans to keep them together
a)
Friar Laurence
b)
Friar John
c)
Friar Tuck
d)
Friar Mark
21.
Fails to deliver the letter about Juliet to Romeo because he was quarantined
a)
Friar John
b)
Friar Laurence
c)
Friar Tuck
d)
Friar Mark
22.
Kinsman of the Prince who arranged to marry Juliet; killed by Romeo
a)
Count Paris
b)
Prince Escalus
c)
Prince William
d)
Tybalt
23.
Threatens to disown Juliet when she doesn't want to marry Paris
a)
Lord Capulet
b)
Lady Capulet
c)
Lord Montague
d)
Lady Montague
24.
Mother of Juliet
a)
Lady Capulet
b)
Lady Montague
c)
Nurse
d)
Rosaline
25.
Kills Mercutio; is then killed by Romeo
a)
Tybalt
b)
Paris
c)
Benvolio
d)
Peter
26.
Acts as a foil to Juliet; crass, loud, and likes to talk
a)
Nurse
b)
Lady Capulet
c)
Lady Montague
d)
Nanny
27.
Both the place where the action occurs and the historical period.
a)
Setting
b)
Theme
c)
Era
d)
Stage
28.
A device an author uses to prepare a reader for an event or action that is to happen later in the story.
a)
Foreshadowing
b)
Foreground
c)
Foretelling
d)
Foreman
29.
Struggle between or within characters; at the center of every story.
a)
Conflict
b)
Comic Relief
c)
Climax
d)
Character
30.
The impulses or behaviors of a person in the story.
a)
Character
b)
Comic Relief
c)
Climax
d)
Conflict
31.
Character who, by contrast with another, makes that other character's personality more clear to the audience.
a)
Foil
b)
Foreshadowing
c)
Allusion
d)
Comic Relief
32.
A device used to paint a picture of the setting in the audience's mind.
a)
Imagery
b)
Imagination
c)
Irony
d)
Iambic Pentameter
33.
Turning point of the drama.
a)
Climax
b)
Resolution
c)
Conflict
d)
Tragedy
34.
When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
a)
Irony
b)
Allusion
c)
Conflict
d)
Foreshadowing
35.
Also called the falling action; includes the events that follow the climax.
a)
Resolution
b)
Finale
c)
Tragedy
d)
Conflict
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