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Romeo and Juliet Act I Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the author of the play?

a)

William Shatner

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

William Blake

d)

William Wordsworth

2.

Where does the play take place?

a)

London, England

b)

Rome, Italy

c)

Paris, France

d)

Verona, Italy

3.

Which character is considered to be the governing body in Verona?

a)

Prince Escalus

b)

Paris

c)

Romeo

d)

Lord Capulet

4.

Which character has cared for Juliet since her birth?

a)

Tybalt

b)

Mercutio

c)

Nurse

d)

Benvolio

5.

Who is a friend of Romeo?

a)

Mercutio

b)

Benvolio

c)

Tybalt

d)

Paris

6.

Who is a cousin to Romeo?

a)

Mercutio

b)

Benvolio

c)

Tybalt

d)

Prince

7.

Who is a cousin to Juliet?

a)

Tybalt

b)

Prince

c)

Benvolio

d)

Mercutio

8.

Who is the son or Lord and Lady Montague?

a)

Tybalt

b)

Prince

c)

Paris

d)

Romeo

9.

Who is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet?

a)

Nurse

b)

Rosaline

c)

Juliet

d)

Paris

10.

Who asks for permission to marry Juliet?

a)

Paris

b)

Tybalt

c)

Romeo

d)

Prince

11.

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…”

a)

Oxymoron

b)

allusion

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

12.

What figurative language is included in this line: “Madam, an hour before the worshipped sun peered forth from the golden window of the East,…”

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allusion

d)

Oxymoron

13.

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!”

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Simile

14.

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.”

a)

Metaphor

b)

simile

c)

oxymoron

d)

allusion

15.

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”

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allusion

d)

Alliteration

16.

What qualities must a Shakespearean sonnet possess?

a)

3 Quatrains

b)

Two Couplets

c)

14 lines

d)

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Rhyme Scheme

e)

Use of Iambic Pentameter

17.

When Capulet says “The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she,” he means ______.

a)

I have no hope of having more children.

b)

My wife can't have any children because she is barren.

c)

My other children have covered themselves in dirty reputations.

d)

I have buried all of my children but Juliet.

18.

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 _______.

a)

The people satisfy their anger by shedding the blood of their enemies.

b)

The people are acting like beasts who have been to a watering place.

c)

The people are raging like beasts.

d)

Fountains are flowing with blood from the marketplace battle.

19.

When Mercutio says, “True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy,” he means ______.

a)

Children love to dream but are foolish.

b)

Dreams are like children.

c)

Dreams are the result of wishful thinking and a failure to focus.

d)

Dreams are foolish; they mean nothing.

20.

When Capulet says, “Let two more summers wither in their pride ere we may think her ripe to be a bride,” he means _______.

a)

Juliet is not a ripened fruit.

b)

Wait to years to marry Juliet; she is too young.

c)

Juliet wants to travel for two summers, so Paris should wait for her.

d)

Paris is too young, and he needs to wait two more years before getting married.