WorksheetsRomeo & Juliet Act 4 & 5 review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
Why does Shakespeare include the scene about the cooks at the beginning of Act 4, Scene 2?
He wanted to depress people
He wanted to provide comic relief from all the tragedy
He wanted the audience to hate the cooks
He thought the scene was boring
In Act 4, Scene 3, Juliet is preparing to take the potion which will make her appear dead, and she is talking aloud to herself about what her worries are. This is called a
Aside
Dialogue
Monologue
Soliloquy
According to PARIS, why are they in such a hurry to wed?
Society will talk about them if they do not go ahead and get married
Juliet cries so much and Lord Capulet believes she wants to hurry and get married
Lord Capulet thinks Juliet is grieving too much and marriage will cheer her up
Lord Capulet is afraid Paris will back out if they don't get married soon
Why does Friar Laurence think Juliet will be willing to go along with his crazy plan of faking her own death?
She trusts him completely since he is a holy man
She is desperate enough to kill herself, so she should be willing to do just about anything
She is wanting to get away from her parents
She loves Romeo enough to do anything
When Juliet meets Paris at Friar Laurence's, he greets her by calling her "My wife." What type of irony is that?
Verbal
Situational
Dramatic
What is Juliet's tone toward Paris when they are talking in front of Friar Laurence?
casual
loving
enraged
hostile
What does Juliet plan to do if the potion does not work?
use her dagger
celebrate the victory
marry Paris
call the Friar
In Act 4, Scene 3 during Juliet's soliloquy, what is her overall state of mind (before taking the potion)?
confident and ambitious
wicked and daring
nostalgic and forgiving
uncertain and desperate
According to Juliet, where is Tybalt's corpse?
in the room that she is in
in the family burial vault
in an unknown place
out looking for Romeo
What would Juliet rather do than marry Paris?
Go to school
Get a job
Be chained up with bears
Go to sleep
What literary element is this: "O son! the night before thy wedding day hath Death lain with thy wife."
alliterationn
personification
hyperbole
assonance
What type of irony is the following: When Romeo shows up to the vault, Juliet is lying there and appears dead.
dramatic
verbal
situational
What literary element is this: "Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, thus I enforce they rotten jaws to open..."?
simile
metaphor
allusion
hyperbole
In Act 5, according to Paris, what may have driven Juliet to her death?
her carelessness
her hatred
her true love
her grief
Why does Romeo place Paris in the tomb next to Juliet?
Romeo believes Paris is a victim of fate like he is
Romeo does not realize that Paris was supposed to marry Juliet
Romeo feels guilty for killing Paris and wants to make it up to him
Romeo has lost his mind
What is a good theme for our play?
The mind is more powerful than the heart
Men show more love and care than women show
Love can make people do things that they cannot undo
People should follow their families and not their hearts
What literary device is this: "and strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs..."?
hyperbole
soliloquy
personification
allusion
What literary device is this: " I dreamt my lady came and found me dead...and breathed such life with kisses in my lips..."?
alliteration
personification
simile
foreshadowing
What literary device is this: "Come cordial and not poison, go with me."?
personification
simile
metaphor
oxymoron
What literary device is this: " Oh unhappy fortune!"
hyperbole
oxymoron
simile
metaphor
What type of irony is this: Romeo kills himself in the tomb because he thinks Juliet is dead?
verbal
situational
dramatic
Why is Friar Laurence reluctant to marry Juliet to Paris?
He does not like Paris
He knows she is already married to Romeo
He hates all Capulets
He thinks she is too young to get married
At the end of Act 4, what event is Juliet's family NOW preparing for?
Her wedding to Paris
Her graduation
Her engagement
Her funeral
Who is Balthasar?
Juliet's cousin
Romeo's cousin
a Capulet servant
a Montague servant
Who says "Alas my liege, my wife is dead tonight"?
Romeo
Lord Montague
Lord Capulet
Paris
Who said: "Yea, noise, then I'll be brief; O happy dagger!/This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die."?
Romeo
Paris
Juliet
Tybalt
Who says: "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo"?
Friar Laurence
The Prince
Benvolio
Lord Capulet
Who says this: "Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law is death to any he that utters them"?
Romeo
Juliet
Friar Laurence
The Apothecary
Who says this: "There is they gold, worse poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell"?
The apothecary
Friar Laurence
Romeo
The Prince
Before she drinks the potion, Juliet has all the following fears EXCEPT
it won't work
she will wake up early
it will actually kill her
Romeo will not come for her
Juliet's mood when she asks for Friar Laurence's advice on how to get out of marrying Paris is one of
desperation
optimism
bewilderment
guilt and shame
The potion will make her sleep for
2 hours
1 day
42 hours
48 hours
Who first discovers Juliet dead?
Paris
Lord Capulet
The nurse
Lady Capulet
In her soliloquy in Act 4, 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?
Juliet is afraid that the plan will not work
Juliet hopes that she will never see her parents again
Juliet's room is very cold
Friar Laurence has tricked her into drinking poison
The nurse is in a good mood on Juliet's wedding day to Paris because she
believes that Juliet wants to marry Paris
knows all about Friar Laurence's foolish plan
has been joking with Lord Capulet
enjoys the songs of the musicians
Why does Lord Capulet say "Death is my son-in-law" in Act 4, Scene 5?
He has just learned that his enemy, Romeo, is married to Juliet
He is describing a dream in which Paris dies soon after marrying Juliet
Death is his son-in-law because it visits his family frequently
Juliet appears dead on her wedding day, as if she has "married" Death
In Act 5, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead because
He has a dream about her death
Balthasar brings him news of her funeral
he receives a letter from the nurse
Paris tells him in the graveyard
In Act 5, Scene 2, Friar Laurence hurries to the Capulet's tomb
so he can hide from the Prince
because Balthasar told him Juliet was dead
to stop Romeo from killing Paris
to reach Juliet before she wakes up
Why is Paris at the cemetery?
He hopes to prevent the Capulets from killing the Montagues
He plans to attack Romeo when he arrives
He wants to place flowers on Juliet's grave
He has discovered Friar Laurence's plot and wants to confront him
When Romeo enters the tomb, he notices that Juliet
is not actually dead
has been poisoned
has vanished
is still beautiful
Why does Friar Laurence leave Juliet alone in the tomb?
She refuses to have anything more to do with him
The Prince has forbidden him from ever seeing her again
He wants to teach her a lesson
He is afraid of the guards
Juliet kisses Romeo in the tomb because she
wants everyone to know she will always love only Romeo
thinks that Romeo has poison on his lips and the kiss will kill her too
believes that kissing Romeo might bring him back to life
hopes to drain all the poison from him
At the end of the play, why do the Capulets and Montagues stop their feud?
They realize their hatred has destroyed their own children
The Prince commands them to stop
Romeo's letter begs them to stop
The friar tells them they should
The play ends with the following: "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
mock the Prince's arrogance
make the ending more memorable
demonstrate his literary talents
provide the audience with comic relief
What kind of irony was it when the entire Capulet house was downstairs preparing for the wedding, while Juliet was upstairs "dead"??
verbal
dramatic
situational
