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Romeo and Juliet Acts 4 & 5

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
At the beginning of Act IV, Paris goes to Friar Laurence’s cell to
a)
search for Romeo.
b)
go to confession.
c)
make wedding plans.
d)
discuss Lord Capulet.
2.
In her soliloquy in Scene 3, Juliet says, “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. / I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins / That almost freezes up the heat of life.” What does Shakespeare reveal in these lines?
a)
Juliet is afraid that the plan will not work.
b)
Juliet’s room is very cold.
c)
Juliet hopes that she will never see her parents again.
d)
Friar Laurence has tricked her into drinking poison.
3.
To ensure that she will never marry Paris, Juliet
a)
asks Friar Laurence to poison him.
b)
plans to hide in the forest until Romeo comes.
c)
intends to stab herself if the potion fails.
d)
decides to tell her parents that she is already married.
4.
Who finds Juliet on the morning of her wedding?
a)
Paris
b)
Nurse
c)
Lady Capulet
d)
Lord Capulet
5.
Romeo thinks that Juliet is dead because
a)
Balthasar brings him news of her funeral.
b)
he receives a letter from the Nurse.
c)
he has dreamed about her death.
d)
Paris tells him in the graveyard.
6.
Why is Paris at the cemetery?
a)
He hopes to prevent the Capulets from killing the Montagues.
b)
He wants to place flowers on Juliet’s grave.
c)
He plans to attack Romeo when he arrives.
d)
He has discovered Friar Laurence’s plot and wants to confront him.
7.
When Paris sees Romeo, he says, “This is that banish’d haughty Montague / That murdered my love’s cousin—with which grief / It is supposed the fair creature died” (Scene 3, lines 49–51). This is an example of dramatic irony because
a)
the audience knows Romeo did not actually kill Tybalt, but Paris does not know this.
b)
Paris uses the word “haughty” ironically, but the audience does not know this.
c)
Paris knows Juliet did not die in the way she was “supposed” to, but the audience does not.
d)
the audience knows the truth about Juliet’s grief and her fake death, but Paris does not.
8.
When Romeo enters the tomb, he notices that Juliet
a)
is still beautiful.
b)
has been poisoned.
c)
is not actually dead.
d)
has vanished.
9.
Why does Friar Laurence leave Juliet alone in the tomb?
a)
She refuses to have anything more to do with him.
b)
He wants to teach her a lesson.
c)
The Prince has forbidden him from ever seeing her again.
d)
He is afraid of the guard.
10.
Juliet kisses Romeo in the tomb because she
a)
wants to prove to everyone that she will always love only Romeo.
b)
believes that kissing Romeo might bring him back to life.
c)
hopes to drain all the poison out of Romeo.
d)
thinks that Romeo has poison on his lips and the kiss will kill her.
11.
Why do Capulet and Montague stop their feud at the end of the play?
a)
They realize that their hatred has destroyed their own children.
b)
No one in either family is left to continue fighting for them.
c)
They have finally heeded Friar Laurence’s sound advice.
d)
The Prince will punish them severely if they do not end their feud.
12.
The play ends with the following lines: “For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” Shakespeare probably ends the play with a rhyme because he wants to
a)
mock the Prince’s pomposity.
b)
demonstrate his formidable literary talents.
c)
make the ending more memorable.
d)
provide the audience with a little comic relief.
13.

Romeo and Juliet is an example of this type of play:

a)

history

b)

comedy

c)

musical

d)

tragedy

14.

Scene one begins as Romeo is speaking onstage to himself, telling his innermost thoughts. This is an example of:

a)

monologue

b)

aside

c)

soliloquy

d)

dramatic irony

15.

In scene three, Romeo threatens Balthasar saying, “I will tear thee joint by joint/ And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs” (5.3.35-36). The phrase “this hungry churchyard” is an example of:

a)

allusion

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

16.

In scene one, Balthasar comes to tell Romeo that Juliet is dead, and “her immortal part with angels lives” (5.1.20). The audience knows this is not true, but Romeo does not, causing tension and becoming an example of this term:

a)

allusion

b)

dramatic irony

c)

simile

d)

pun

17.

In scene two, the friar realizes that he must go get Juliet since his message did not reach Romeo. He says of Juliet, “Poor living corpse,* closed in a dead man’s tomb!” (5.2.30) Referring to Juliet as a “living corpse”* is an example of:

a)

oxymoron

b)

allusion

c)

simile

d)

Pun

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