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Romeo & Juliet Act III

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Tybalt insults Romeo by calling him

a)

Ratcatcher

b)

Matron

c)

Villain

d)

Flower

2.

What are Lady Capulet's plans for killing Romeo?

a)

With a knife

b)

Sending someone with a sword

c)

Drowning him in the river

d)

Giving him poison

3.

What is Juliet waiting for at the beginning of Act III Scene ii

a)

Night

b)

Lord Capulet

c)

The rope ladder

d)

Her wedding

4.

What day is Paris and Juliet's wedding scheduled for?

a)

Monday

b)

Tuesday

c)

Wednesday

d)

Thursday

5.

Which of these is NOT a reason that Romeo is upset in Friar Lawrence's cell?

a)

All of Verona can see Juliet, but he can't

b)

The Friar doesn't understand what he is going through

c)

The Friar cannot think of a plan to help him

d)

He feels guilty for what this has done to Juliet

6.

Juliet calls this "fickle" because it is always changing its mind

a)

Satan

b)

Fortune

c)

Heaven

d)

Weather

7.

Who tells Juliet that Tybalt is dead?

a)

Lady Capulet

b)

Paris

c)

Romeo

d)

Nurse

8.

Which is NOT something that happens when Capulet hears Juliet refuse to marry Paris?

a)

He threatens to hit her

b)

He threatens to lock her up

c)

He yells at the Nurse

d)

He calls her hurtful names

9.

Where is Romeo fleeing during his exile?

a)

Verona

b)

Milan

c)

Mantua

d)

Messina

10.

Which is NOT a blessing Romeo carries on his back, according to the Friar?

a)

He has Juliet now, and she has gotten him out of his depression

b)

Mantua is a lovely place to live and work

c)

He was able to kill Tybalt before Tybalt killed him

d)

The punishment of death has been changed to exile

11.

Mercutio says: "A _______ o' both your houses!"

a)

plague

b)

curse

c)

trouble

d)

torment

12.

Why does Lord Capulet schedule the wedding between Paris and Juliet so quickly?

a)

To avoid Paris marrying someone else

b)

To give everyone, particularly Juliet, a reason to be happy

c)

That was the plan all along

d)

Lady Capulet asked for it to be moved up

13.

Which of these is NOT a reason the Nurse tells Juliet to marry Paris?

a)

Paris is a lovely man

b)

Romeo can't come back to claim her

c)

Her marriage to Romeo is basically dead

d)

It would make her parents happy

14.

After the Nurse tells Juliet to marry Paris, which is NOT a reaction Juliet has?

a)

Juliet vows to never share a secret with the Nurse again

b)

Juliet states that if no one can help her, she will end her own life

c)

Juliet pretends to feel remorse for disappointing her parents

d)

Juliet tells the Nurse she's angry at such betrayal

15.

When Juliet asks for her mother's help at the end of the act, how does Lady Capulet respond?

a)

Tells Juliet to listen to her father

b)

To marry Paris or else

c)

Do whatever Juliet wants

d)

Says nothing and just leaves

16.

How does Capulet insult the Nurse during the wedding argument?

a)

Calling her fat

b)

Calling her a gossip and a liar

c)

Saying that she can't work for the Capulets anymore

d)

Saying she is stupid and uneducated

17.

Which of these is NOT a simile?

a)

So tedious is this day as is the night before some festival to an impatient child that hath new robes and may not wear them.

b)

Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb.

c)

Will you be ready? Do you like this haste? We'll keep no great ado: a friend or two.

d)

Like powder in a skilless soldier's flask, is set afire by thine own ignorance, and thou dismembered with thy own defense.

18.

Juliet stops being mad at Romeo for killing Tybalt for the following reasons EXCEPT:

a)

She realizes that Tybalt would have killed Romeo

b)

She realizes that if Romeo's wife doesn't support him, no one will

c)

Because she knows Tybalt is an angry and vengeful person

d)

Because the Nurse says that he, like all men, is a liar and a deceiver

19.

Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt because he is weak.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Mercutio fights Tybalt because he thinks Tybalt is being rude.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

When the Nurse is trying to tell Juliet about the fight, Juliet mistakenly thinks Romeo is dead.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Tybalt is able to kill Mercutio because Romeo got in the middle of the fight.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

Friar Lawrence warns Romeo that going to Juliet's after he is banished is a bad idea.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

Friar Lawrence gives Romeo a ring from Juliet.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

The important thing mentioned about the weather at the beginning of the act is that it's raining.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Lady Capulet tells the Prince not to believe Benvolio's story about the fight because he is a Montague.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

Juliet is able to trick her mother into believing they feel the same way by using words that have double meanings.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

Romeo gets mad at the Friar for continuing to talk about banishment and the Friar gets mad at Romeo for not being grateful for the mercy bestowed on him.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

The nightingale sings at night and the sparrow at daybreak.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

The reader can assume that Capulet will not tolerate being disobeyed.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

Name the Poetic Device: "For in a minute, there are many days."

(a)  

32.

Name the poetic device: "The vaulty heaven so high about our heads."

(a)  

33.

Name the poetic device: "More light and light, more dark and dark our woes."

(a)  

34.

Name the poetic device: "Methinks I see the... as one dead in the bottom of a tomb."

(a)  

35.

Name the poetic device: "For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, do ebb and flow with tears."

(a)  

36.

Name the poetic device: "Poor ropes, you are beguiled, both you and I."

(a)  

37.

Name the poetic device: "Is there no pity in the sitting clouds that sees into the bottom of my grief?"

(a)  

38.

Name the poetic device: "Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!"

(a)  

39.

Who tells Prince Escalus the story of the fight in scene 1?

a)

Romeo

b)

Benvolio

c)

A Citizen

d)

Lady Capulet