WorksheetsRomeo and Juliet Act 4
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
How does Juliet convince the Nurse to let her sleep alone that night?
She says she's tired and just needs to sleep.
She says she's getting married; she doesn't need a Nurse.
She says she has a lot to think about with Paris.
She says she want to sit up & practice writing her new name.
Juliet finally agrees to marry Paris because
he is handsome.
he is wealthy.
she cannot resist her father.
Friar advised her to pretend that she agrees.
To which city does Romeo go after being exiled from Verona?
Verona
Mantua
Rome
Venice
The change in the wedding date affects Friar Laurence’s plan because
Juliet must take even more of the potion.
he will have to share his secret with the Nurse.
he has another important event scheduled for that day.
he will have less time to contact Romeo and let him know of the plan.
To make sure that she will never marry Paris, Juliet
asks Friar Laurence to poison Paris.
plans to hide in the forest until Romeo comes.
intends to stab herself if the potion fails.
decides to tell her parents that she is already married to Romeo.
Identify the literary device used in the line, "Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
Simile
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Pun
Which of the following is NOT an example of dramatic irony?
The Nurse is the only person completely devastated by Juliet's death.
The Capulet family prepares for the wedding while Juliet "kills" herself.
Peter has an argument with the musicians over the kind of music they should play.
The wedding activities are all reversed to be for that of a funeral.
Juliet "dies" the same day she is meant to marry Paris.
Why is Juliet pulling out a knife when she is asking the Friar for help significant?
It demonstrates she wants to die rather than lie to her parents.
It shows she wants to kill everyone who gets in the way of her marriage to Romeo.
It foreshadows that she will ultimately kill Romeo.
It is parallel to Romeo wanting to stab himself after finding out his punishment.
Beside being a spiritual adviser, what other important expertise does Friar Lawrence have?
The history of the feud between the Capulets and Montagues
The medicinal use of plants
fencing and sword fighting
Italian history
What is dramatic irony?
When the audience participates in the play
When a character angrily irons clothing
When the audience is aware of something important, but a character is not
When the audience laughs during a suspenseful part
What is the purpose of comic relief?
To provide relief from the dramatic intensity, lighten the mood
To provide background information of the characters
To clarify the confusing language Shakespeare used
To provide suspense after a humorous scene
What is the effect of using a soliloquy?
It gives the other characters time to change their costumes.
It gives them time to change the set behind the character speaking.
It reveals the thoughts and feelings of a character that we might not hear otherwise.
They sometimes contribute to dramatic irony because the audience might learn something that the other characters do not.
Capulet says 'Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir' when he finds out Juliet is dead. What is this an example of?
personification
simile
dramatic irony
alliteration
Paris says 'Thy face is mine, and thou hast slandered it.' What does this tell us about the context of the play?
Elizabethan audiences strongly believed in fate.
In a patriarchal society, men 'owned' the woman's body.
Each family must uphold their honour.
Father's made decisions for their daughters.
Friar Lawrence blaming Juliet’s death on her parents is an example of dramatic irony. Why is this considered dramatic irony?
It's ironic that she would die the day of her wedding.
It is ironic because he knows that Juliet has only taken a sleeping potion.
It's ironic that she won't have to marry Paris after all.
It's ironic because the potion accidentally kills Juliet.
Which literary device is found in the underlined text?
alliteration
metaphor
simile
personification
Which literary device is found in the underlined text?
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
Which literary device is found in the underlined text?
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes..." -Prologue Act 1
Alliteration
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
