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Romeo and Juliet

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

________________ makes fun of Romeo by saying, " I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes, / By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, / By her foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh" (2.1.17-9).

a)

Benvolio

b)

Juliet

c)

Tybalt

d)

Mercutio

2.

________________ takes up for Romeo by saying, "And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him" (2.1.22).

a)

Tybalt

b)

Benvolio

c)

Mercutio

d)

Juliet

3.

__________________ is the first to suggest marriage by saying, "If thy bent of love be honorable, / Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow" (2.2.144-5).

a)

Romeo

b)

Mercutio

c)

Nurse

d)

Juliet

4.

___________________ questions Romeo's newfound love by saying, "Young men's love then lies / Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes" (2.3.67-8).

a)

Juliet

b)

Friar

c)

Nurse

d)

Mercutio

5.

________________ keeps Juliet waiting for the marriage plans by saying, “I am aweary, give me leave awhile. / Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce have I!” (2.5.26-6).

a)

Friar

b)

Lady Capulet

c)

Nurse

d)

Romeo

6.

________________ tells the Nurse the marriage plans by saying, “Bid her devise / Some means to come to shrift this afternoon; / And there she shall at Friar Lawrence’s cell / Be shriv’d and married” (2.4.164-7).

a)

Benvolio

b)

Romeo

c)

Juliet

d)

Friar

7.

When Romeo says, "A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month," it is revealed that Mercutio is all talk and doesn't mean anything by it (2.4.134-6).

a)

True

b)

False

8.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose / by any other word would smell as sweet," reveals that Juliet thinks it is wrong to judge Romeo because of his last name (2.2.43-4).

a)

True

b)

False

9.

"...for thou art / As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, / As a winged messenger of heaven..," is an example of a metaphor (2.2.26-8).

a)

True

b)

False

10.

"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast," shows Friar Lawrence's dislike in rushing the marriage (2.4.94).

a)

True

b)

False

11.

"These violent delights have violent ends / And, in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which, as they kiss, consume," foreshadows Romeo and Juliet's wedding ending tragically (2.6.9-11).

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Juliet uses a metaphor to compare her and Romeo's declarations of love to lightning when she says, "It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden; / Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be / Ere one can say it lightens," (2.2.118-20).

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The nurse hopes Romeo isn't leading Juliet into a "fool's paradise" which is an example of an idiom (2.4.151).

a)

True

b)

False