WorksheetsRomeo & Juliet Unit Test Review
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 18mins
Which statement best describes a theme, or message about life and people, conveyed by the events in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Hatred between two families can rob people of what they hold dearest.
Young people in love are foolish and totally irresponsible.
Love is fleeting and must be pursued at all costs.
Misunderstandings can happen at any age and must be forgiven.
Which of the following best states a theme of Romeo and Juliet?
Love paves the way for peace.
The power of nature overcomes the will of man.
Love is a gentle force that brings families together.
Actions in haste can bring about destruction.
In Act IV, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, when Friar Lawrence enters, he says, "Come, is the bride ready to go to church?" Why is this line dramatically ironic?
He is late for the wedding service.
He knows that Juliet has fallen into a deep sleep that resembles death.
He knows that Juliet is already at the church.
He realizes that Paris must have fled to Mantua.
In Act IV, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet, Paris tells Friar Lawrence, "Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death, / And therefore have I little talked of love." What makes Paris's comment an example of dramatic irony?
Juliet is saddened by the death of Tybalt.
Juliet is actually weeping over Romeo's banishment.
Juliet is pretending to cry in order to avoid seeing Paris.
Juliet was in love with her cousin Tybalt.
Which of the following quotes from Act III, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, illustrates Shakespeare’s use of comic relief?
Lady Capulet: Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn,/The gallant, young, and noble gentleman,/The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church,/Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.
Capulet: Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!/I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,/Or never after look me in the face./Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me.
Juliet: Is there no pity sitting in the clouds/That sees into the bottom of my grief?—/O sweet my mother, cast me not away!/Delay this marriage for a month, a week.
Nurse: I think it best you married with the county./ O, he's a lovely gentleman!/ Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,/Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye/As Paris hath.
In Romeo and Juliet, which of the following illustrates Shakespeare's use of comic relief?
A servant explains to Capulet that cooks should lick their own fingers.
Capulet believes that Juliet is dead when she is really only sleeping.
"Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up; For well you know this is a pitiful case."
A nurse claims to be too tired to give Juliet Romeo's message.
Read the following line from Romeo’s monologue in Act II, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, where Shakespeare employs personification:
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:
Be not her maid, since she is envious…
In this quote, Romeo refers to Juliet as the sun and Rosaline as the moon. What does Romeo intend to say in these lines?
Romeo says he is now in love with Juliet instead of Rosaline.
Romeo says that Rosaline is more beautiful than Juliet.
Romeo says that Juliet is envious of Rosaline.
Romeo says he has love for Juliet and Rosaline.
What is the effect of the metaphor in the following line from Romeo’s speech to Juliet from Act I, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet?
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine,
It exaggerates the fact that Romeo is looking for love and that he thinks Juliet is the answer.
It creates a vivid picture of Romeo holding Juliet’s hand in readers’ minds.
It shows that Romeo feels that he does not deserve to be in Juliet's presence.
It creates suspense because readers wonder what happens next between Romeo and Juliet.
Read the following line from Act IV, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, when Capulet speaks of his daughter’s apparent death:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
How does Shakespeare use a simile to emphasize the tragedy of the apparent death?
By comparing Juliet to a flower, Capulet emphasizes that she is too young to die.
By comparing Juliet to a flower, Capulet emphasizes that she is too beautiful to die.
By comparing Juliet to a flower with frost on it, Capulet emphasizes that Juliet’s body is cold.
By comparing Juliet to a flower with frost on it, Capulet emphasizes that he has lost the best daughter in the land.
Read Juliet’s lines from Act IV, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, as Juliet prepares for the wedding:
Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,
To help me sort such needful ornaments
As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?
How does this example of dramatic irony create tension?
Readers know that Juliet will miss Nurse.
Readers know that Juliet is misleading Nurse.
Readers know that Juliet plans to obey her father.
Readers know that Nurse is excited to assist Juliet.
Read Capulet’s lines from Act IV, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, regarding Juliet's apparent death:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
How does this example of dramatic irony create tension?
Readers know that Juliet is actually sleeping.
Readers know that Capulet causes Juliet’s death.
Readers know that Juliet has been dead for hours.
Readers know that Capulet is grieving over Juliet’s death.
In Act III, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, Lady Capulet, who thinks Juliet is lamenting the death of Tybalt, tells her,
"Therefore have done. Some grief shows much of love; / But much of grief shows still some want of wit." What is the best paraphrase of this passage?
Therefore, keep crying. Eventually, you will work out your grief.
We all feel grief at a person's death, whether we loved the person or not.
So stop grieving. Some mourning is a natural result of love, but too much grief is foolish.
Our grief is the best evidence that we have loved a person, but it is not right to overdo it.
After he is wounded in Act III, Scene 1, Mercutio says to Romeo,
"Why the devil came you between us? I / was hurt under your arm." Which of the following is the best paraphrase of Mercutio's words?
I am so badly wounded that I feel I will die.
Why did you interfere? Your arm allowed him to stab me.
Why has the devil caused me bad fortune?
Your arm could not save me, Romeo.
What can readers infer from the following quote from Act V, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?
Montague: O thou untaught! what manners is in this,
To press before thy father to a grave?
Montague believes that sons who act disobediently die early deaths.
Montague believes that it is unnatural for sons to die before their fathers.
Montague believes that sons who display bad manners will die before their time.
Montague believes that sons who commit suicide deserve to die before their fathers.
Which of the following quotes spoken by Juliet shows the strongest example of how she changes over the course of Romeo and Juliet?
“Madam, I am here. What is your will?”
“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.”
“Well do not swear: although I joy in thee, / I have no joy of this contract to-night; / It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden;”
“O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, / From off the battlements of yonder tower”
Which of the following quotes spoken by Romeo shows the strongest example of how he changes over the course of Romeo and Juliet?
“Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! / Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!”
“With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; / I have forgot that name, and that name’s woe.”
“Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?”
“Let me have / A dram of poison; such soon-speeding gear / As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead”
Which event in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet does the Prologue foreshadow?
the deaths of Romeo and Juliet
the marriage of Romeo and Juliet
the deaths of Paris and Romeo
the marriage of Paris and Juliet
What event do Benvolio's lines from the opening of Act III, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet, hint at, or foreshadow?
And, if we meet, we shall not 'scape a brawl,
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
the conversation the young men have later about Benvolio's quick temper
the argument Juliet has with her father
the fight in which Mercutio and Tybalt are killed
the duel in which Romeo is killed
