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English 9 Quiz

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 53mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

a)

Mood

b)

Tone

2.

Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character, found through word choice

a)

mood

b)

tone

3.

A character who has many personality traits and is life-like

a)

round character

b)

flat character

c)

dynamic character

d)

static character

4.

A character who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics

a)

round character

b)

flat character

c)

dynamic character

d)

static character

5.

A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action

a)

round character

b)

flat character

c)

dynamic character

d)

static character

6.

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

a)

symbolism

b)

hyperbole

c)

personification

d)

anti-hero

7.

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

a)

anti-hero

b)

personification

c)

hyperbole

d)

symbolism

8.

What symbol is often associated with Juliet?

a)

Light

b)

Darkness

c)

Dagger

d)

Apple

9.

What is a type of indirect characterization?

a)

Speech

b)

Effect on Others

c)

Actions

d)

Looks

10.

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

a)

Pun

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Allusion

d)

Verbal Irony

11.

Plastic Silverware is an example of what?

a)

Pun

b)

Paradox

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Allusion

12.

A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant

a)

Verbal Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Dramatic Irony

13.

I always lie is an example of what?

a)

paradox

b)

pun

c)

oxymoron

d)

extended metaphor

14.

present action is temporarily interrupted so that past events can be described

a)

Couplet

b)

Foreshadow

c)

Flashback

d)

Epithet

15.

the contrast between what a character expects and what the audience knows is true

a)

Verbal Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Dramatic Irony

16.

How many people are dead by the end of Romeo and Juliet?

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

7

17.

Romeo was responsible for two deaths, including himself.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

The Prince is related to two people who died in Romeo and Juliet.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something

a)

Imagery

b)

Epithet

c)

Satire

d)

couplet

20.

What is the Homeric Question

a)

Whether Homer was a girl or a boy

b)

Whether Homer existed or wrote the Odyssey

c)

Whether Homer lived in Greece

d)

Whether Homer wrote in Latin

21.

a larger-than-life figure who goes on a journey faces antagonists and returns home considerably transformed

a)

Epic hero

b)

Anti hero

c)

Antagonist

d)

Flat Character

22.

the narrator is a character in the story, using I, Me, We, or Us

a)

First Person POV

b)

Second Person POV

c)

Third Person Omniscient

d)

Third Person Limited

e)

Third Person Objective

23.

The narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems

a)

First Person POV

b)

Second Person POV

c)

Third Person Omniscient

d)

Third Person Limited

e)

Third Person Objective

24.

the narrator tells what only one character thinks, feels, and observes

a)

First Person POV

b)

Second Person POV

c)

Third Person Omniscient

d)

Third Person Limited

e)

Third Person Objective

25.

"There's no trust,No faith, no honesty in men; all are perjured All forsworn, all naught; dissemblers all!"


Who said it?

a)

Friar Laurence

b)

Nurse

c)

Juliet

d)

Lady Capulet

26.

"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."


Who said it?

a)

Romeo

b)

Juliet

c)

Mercutio

d)

Paris

27.

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move,But no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it fly."


Who said it?

a)

Romeo

b)

Juliet

c)

Mercutio

d)

Nurse

28.

"A crutch! A crutch! Why call you for a sword?"


Who said it?

a)

Romeo

b)

Mercutio

c)

Lady Capulet

d)

Lord Capulet

29.

Most exciting moment of the story; turning point

a)

Rising Action

b)

Falling Action

c)

Climax

d)

Exposition

30.

A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.

a)

Rising Action

b)

Falling Action

c)

Climax

d)

Exposition

31.

A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group.

a)

Monologue

b)

Soliloquy

c)

Aside

32.

exile

a)

Ambiguity

b)

banishment

c)

boistorous

d)

dexterity

33.

excessive or blind adoration; worship of an object

a)

Idolatry

b)

lament

c)

nuptial

d)

peruse

34.

wedding

a)

lament

b)

nuptial

c)

peruse

d)

reconcile

35.

Who is a Montague? Select all that apply

a)

Romeo

b)

Mercutio

c)

Benvolio

d)

Balthasar

36.

Who is a Capulet? Select all that apply

a)

Juliet

b)

Nurse

c)

Paris

d)

Tybalt

37.

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

a)

Juxtaposition

b)

Extended Metaphor

c)

Symbolism

d)

Pun

38.

A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Analogy

c)

anecdote

d)

Aphorism

39.

My only love sprung from my only hate

a)

Mercutio

b)

Nurse

c)

Romeo

d)

Juliet

40.

A villain that is hither come in spite,

To scorn at our solemnity this night.

a)

Romeo

b)

Mercutio

c)

Tybalt

d)

Lord Capulet

41.

Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives that I mean to make bold withal, and, as you shall use

me hereafter, dry beat the rest of the eight.

a)

Mercutio

b)

Tybalt

c)

Benvolio

d)

Romeo

42.

A plague o' both your houses!

They have made worms' meat of me.

a)

Mercutio

b)

Romeo

c)

Tybalt

d)

Paris

43.

It was the lark, the herald of the morn,

No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

a)

Romeo

b)

Juliet

c)

Nurse

d)

Paris

44.

For nought so vile that on the earth doth live,


But to the earth some special good doth give;

a)

Lord Capulet

b)

Romeo

c)

Juliet

d)

Friar Laurence

45.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;

And vice sometimes, by action, dignified.

a)

Nurse

b)

Friar Laurence

c)

Romeo

d)

Juliet

46.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

a)

Juliet

b)

Romeo

c)

Mercutio

d)

Benvolio

47.

“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man” is an example of what?

a)

oxymoron

b)

pun

c)

paradox

d)

malapropism

48.

Apothecary’s town in R&J

a)

Verona

b)

Mantua

c)

Venice

d)

Milan

49.

Must now bury a wife and a son

a)

Lord Capulet

b)

The Prince

c)

Lord Montague

d)

Friar Laurence

50.

Breaks the law because he’s starving to death

a)

Rosaline

b)

Balthasar

c)

Peter

d)

Apothecary

51.

As I head down to the cliffs with my father, one of the raced officials stops me. He says, “Sean Kendrick, you are ten years old. You haven’t discovered it yet, but there are more interesting ways to die than on this beach.”


What is the POV?

a)

First Person POV

b)

Second Person POV

c)

Third Person Limited POV

d)

Third Person Objective POV

52.

A smile tugged at Cinder’s lips. Not so much at the nursery rhyme, a phantom song about pestilence and death that had regained popularity in the past decade. The song itself made her squeamish. But she did love the glares from passerby as the giggling children fell over in their

path. The inconvenience of having to swarm around the writhing bodies stirred grumbles from the shoppers, and Cinder adored the children for it.


What is the POV?

a)

First Person POV

b)

Second Person POV

c)

Third Person Limited POV

d)

Third Person Objective POV

e)

Third Person Omniscient POV

53.

The Prologue is in what poetic form?

a)

Ballad

b)

Sonnet

c)

Villanelle

d)

Elegy

54.

"I defy you, stars!"

a)

Romeo

b)

Benvolio

c)

Juliet

d)

Paris

55.
Who recognizes first that Romeo is at the party?
a)
Capulet
b)
Tybalt
c)
Peter
56.
Who kills Mercutio?
a)
Benvolio
b)
Balthazar
c)
Romeo
d)
Tybalt
57.
Who performs Romeo and Juliet's marriage? 
a)
Friar John
b)
Mercutio
c)
Friar Lawrence
d)
Nurse
58.
What is Romeo's punishment for killing Tybalt?
a)
death
b)
jail
c)
banished from Verona
d)
banished from Mantua 
59.
Who says,"Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"?
a)
Tybalt
b)
Mercutio
c)
Benvolio
d)
Romeo
60.
Who says, "O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable"?
a)
Juliet
b)
Romeo
c)
Friar Laurence
d)
Nurse