WorksheetsRomeo and Juliet Act I Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Who is the author of the play?
William Shatner
William Shakespeare
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Where does the play take place?
London, England
Rome, Italy
Paris, France
Verona, Italy
Which character is considered to be the governing body in Verona?
Prince Escalus
Paris
Romeo
Lord Capulet
Which character has cared for Juliet since her birth?
Tybalt
Mercutio
Nurse
Benvolio
Who is a friend of Romeo?
Mercutio
Benvolio
Tybalt
Paris
Who is a cousin to Romeo?
Mercutio
Benvolio
Tybalt
Prince
Who is a cousin to Juliet?
Tybalt
Prince
Benvolio
Mercutio
Who is the son or Lord and Lady Montague?
Tybalt
Prince
Paris
Romeo
Who is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet?
Nurse
Rosaline
Juliet
Paris
Who asks for permission to marry Juliet?
Paris
Tybalt
Romeo
Prince
What figurative language is included in this line: “But all so soon as the all-cheering sun should in the East begin to draw the shady curtain from Aurora’s bed…”
Oxymoron
allusion
Simile
Metaphor
What figurative language is included in this line: “Madam, an hour before the worshipped sun peered forth from the golden window of the East,…”
Personification
Metaphor
Allusion
Oxymoron
Which figurative language is used in these lines: “Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first created!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!”
Metaphor
Personification
Oxymoron
Simile
What figurative language is used in these lines: “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”
Metaphor
simile
oxymoron
allusion
What figurative language can be found in these lines? “We’ll have no Cupid hoodwinked with a scarf,
Bearing a Tartar’s painted bow of lath”
Simile
Metaphor
Allusion
Alliteration
What qualities must a Shakespearean sonnet possess?
3 Quatrains
Two Couplets
14 lines
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Rhyme Scheme
Use of Iambic Pentameter
When Capulet says “The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she,” he means ______.
I have no hope of having more children.
My wife can't have any children because she is barren.
My other children have covered themselves in dirty reputations.
I have buried all of my children but Juliet.
When the Prince says, “Will they not hear? What, ho! You men, you beasts that quench the fire of your pernicious rage with purple fountains issuing from your veins!” he means _______.
The people satisfy their anger by shedding the blood of their enemies.
The people are acting like beasts who have been to a watering place.
The people are raging like beasts.
Fountains are flowing with blood from the marketplace battle.
When Mercutio says, “True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy,” he means ______.
Children love to dream but are foolish.
Dreams are like children.
Dreams are the result of wishful thinking and a failure to focus.
Dreams are foolish; they mean nothing.
When Capulet says, “Let two more summers wither in their pride ere we may think her ripe to be a bride,” he means _______.
Juliet is not a ripened fruit.
Wait to years to marry Juliet; she is too young.
Juliet wants to travel for two summers, so Paris should wait for her.
Paris is too young, and he needs to wait two more years before getting married.
