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WorksheetsRomeo & Juliet Act 1 Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
In the kick off video "No Escaping Shakespeare," William Shakespeare is praised for which claims? Mark two.
His plot lines have helped parents understand their children.
His lines have become commonly used phrases.
Hundreds of movies loosely echo his stories.
His themes are studied in millions of schools and colleges.
Which items are true about Tybalt? Mark two.
He threatens violence and revenge against Romeo in Act 1.
He declares he hates Verona and the Price's control of the city.
He wins a sword fight against Benvolio.
He shows himself to be the most loyal and skillful fighter on the Montague side.
What does Romeo discover about Juliet at the end of Act One?
He realizes Juliet is a Capulet.
He realizes that Juliet is older than himself.
He realizes that Juliet is already engaged to Paris.
He realizes that he has made promises to Rosaline.
What is Juliet's relationship to the nurse?
The nurse is one more controlling mother, and Juliet appears to want to defy both nurse and mother.
The nurse, funny and endearing, raised Juliet and thinks of her as a daughter.
Juliet does not like the nurse but must suffer her dirty jokes since her mom employs her.
There is no nurse in the play -- you can't fool me, MOUNT!
Which character is describes as hot headed?
Mercutio
Romeo
Benvolio
Tybalt
What does Prince Escalus say he will do to anyone who fights in the future?
Put them in jail.
Make them live together.
Punish them with death.
Make them read Shakespeare, as payment.
Romeo says, "I fear, too early: for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night’s revels and expire the term Of a despised life closed in my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death."
What do these lines mean? Mark the item that is least true.
They foreshadow his own premature death is set in motion by the revels this night.
They show how Romeo is prone to hyperbole, exaggeration, and heightened emotion.
They relate to the deaths that the feud has caused and will cause as warring families come together in the party scene.
They reflect that his despised crush will die in his heart at the party.
Why was Romeo is such a sad mood at the beginning of Act 1?
He is madly in love with Juliet but cannot not be with her because she is a Capulet.
He is in love with Rosaline, but it's unrequited and throws him into depression.
He is in love with Rosaline, and his family's feud upsets what could be a blissful time of romance.
He is in love with Juliet, and he has found out she has to marry another suitor.
What type of play is Romeo and Juliet?
comedy
tragedy
history
torture tool
Romeo belongs to which family?
Capulet family
Montague family
Escalus family
Lawrence family
What is the purpose of the Prologue?
to grab our attention
to explain why the families are fighting
so we know where the story takes place
to set the stage for the story as a whole
How could we describe Juliet's relationship with her mother?
Juliet is devoted and loyal to her mother's influence and wishes.
Juliet is openly sassy and strong minded in conversation with her mother.
Juliet's mother's domineering qualities make Juliet meek and compliant to others, perhaps a foreshadowing.
Juliet's mother shows herself disconnected from Juliet, while Juliet displays quiet defiance and deceptiveness.
Why does Juliet's mother/nurse want her to marry Paris?
He's like a beautiful book; he's "a man of wax" who is very handsome.
He's important, "a golden crown," who would connect the family to the Prince.
He is wealthy, "coins of gold," and the mother wants Juliet to be treated like a queen.
They do not want her to marry him! He's a "snake"!
How could we describe Mercutio?
He is an optimistic, jolly trickster hero.
He is violent and aggressive, a counterpart to the Capulet character who is like this whose name starts with "T."
He is noble, connected to the Prince, and tries to influence Romeo to abide by Verona law.
He is playful, imaginative, and a bit troubled.
Romeo kisses Juliet within an hour of seeing her -- so in love!
True
False
Partly true, because she refused his kiss.
Which line from Act 1 does not reflect Romeo's emotional highs and lows as a passionate teen?
"But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air..."
"Away from light steals home my heavy son, And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out And makes himself an artificial night..."
"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear; Beauty too rich for use! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows."
"There sups my fair Rosaline whom I so lovest, With all the admired beauties of Verona: I will go thither; and, with unattainted eye, Compare her face with some that there shall show, And I will think my swan a crow."
"Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this."
Mercutio's foreshadowing about Romeo and Juliet from the Queen Mab soliloquy?
"But He, that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen into the journey of your lives, stormy amid the gale!"
"Thus from their lips their sin is purged. Yet the sin that they have took, a trespass sweetly urged, will be given as sin again."
"True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy..."
What, ho, you beasts! That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins!"
The kick off video "No Escaping Shakespeare," announces Shakespeare's most famous lines as...
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
To be or not to be? -- that is the question.
Mother always said life was like a box of chocolates.
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
