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Romeo and Juliet TEST REVIEW

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
a)
Homer
b)
Dante Allegheri
c)
William Shakespeare
d)
Christopher Marlowe
2.
Where is the play set?
a)
Bologne
b)
Verona
c)
Rome
d)
Venice
3.
What family does Juliet belong to? 
a)
Capulet
b)
Montague
c)
Hatfield
d)
McCoy 
4.
What family does Romeo belong to? 
a)
Capulet
b)
Montague
c)
Hatfield
d)
McCoy 
5.

Which BEST explains why Friar Lawrence agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet?

a)

He wants to spend more time with the Capulet and Montague families

b)

He thinks it will help the two families give more money to the poor

c)

He hopes it will help the relationship between their two families

6.
Why is Romeo exiled?
a)
For killing Tybalt
b)
For marrying Juliet against her father's will
c)
For killing Mercutio
d)
For attending the party uninvited
7.

When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, what ultimatum does Lord Capulet give Juliet?

a)

To marry Paris this Thursday or be disowned. He won't even help her if she's on the streets.

b)

To marry Paris this Thursday or be sent to a convent to live with and become a nun.

c)

To marry Paris this Thursday or be sent to Mantua like Romeo and face banishment.

8.

Who has a more favorable view of Romeo, particularly at the Capulet party?

a)

Tybalt

b)

Lord Capulet

9.

What literary term refers to a "a play on words, sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar meaning or sound of different words"

a)

Foreshadowing

b)

Innuendo

c)

Pun

d)

Hyperbole

10.

Who said the following: ‘“What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues, / and thee.”’

a)

Lord Capulet

b)

Nurse

c)

Mercutio

d)

Tybalt

11.

On what day do Romeo and Juliet get married?

a)

Sunday

b)

Monday

c)

Tuesday

d)

Wednesday

12.

What is the best definition of drama?

a)

Speech delivered by a lone character that reveals the speaker’s thoughts and feelings.

b)

Literature performed for an audience by people who play parts of characters.

c)

A purging of the emotions of fear and pity.

d)

A poem, usually in iambic pentameter, that follows one of a number of different rhyme schemes

13.

A sonnet contains how many lines?

a)

10

b)

12

c)

14

d)

16

14.

A sonnet is made up of...

a)

3 quatrains

b)

2 quatrains and 1 couplet

c)

2 quatrains and 2 couplet

d)

3 quatrains and 1 couplet

15.

This character refuses to let Tybalt fight at the party in Act I.

a)

Lord Montague

b)

Lord Capulet

c)

Benvolio

d)

The Prince

16.

Romeo’s friend--he has a quick temper and a big mouth.

a)

Benvolio

b)

Balthasar

c)

Mercutio

d)

The Nurse

17.

This character kills Mercutio.

a)

Romeo

b)

Tybalt

c)

Benvolio

d)

Balthasar

18.

This character demands that a Montague be executed to avenge Tybalt’s death.

a)

Juliet

b)

Lady Capulet

c)

Lady Montague

d)

The Nurse

19.

This character advises Juliet to forget Romeo and marry Paris.

a)

The Nurse

b)

Friar Lawrence

c)

Lady Montague

d)

Rosaline

20.

(IN THE PLAY) This character brings Romeo news of Juliet’s “death.”

a)

Balthasar

b)

Benvolio

c)

Tybalt

d)

Friar Lawrence

21.

This character is killed by Romeo near Juliet’s tomb.

a)

Balthasar

b)

Tybalt

c)

Friar Lawrence

d)

Paris

22.

Readers know that Juliet is not really dead and will revive.  Romeo, however, believes that she is really dead.  This is an example of…

a)

verbal irony

b)

situational irony

c)

dramatic irony

23.

Who said it?

“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.”

a)

Romeo

b)

Tybalt

c)

Benvolio

d)

Mercutio

24.

Who said it?

“Parting is such sweet sorrow…”

a)

Romeo

b)

Juliet

c)

The Nurse

d)

Friar Lawrence

25.

Which of the following best summarizes Friar Lawrence’s PLAN for Juliet?

a)

answer choices

Juliet will marry Paris but still see Romeo in Mantua.

b)

Juliet will take a sleeping potion to appear dead, then run away to Mantua to reunite with Romeo.

c)

Juliet will flee to Mantua and write her parents later to confess.

d)

Juliet will take a sleeping potion to appear dead, then kill herself with Romeo.

26.

At the very beginning of the play, what does the prince say will happen to anyone in the House of Montague or the House of Caplet if they fight in the streets again?

a)

Death

b)

Banishment

c)

Prison

d)

A fine

27.

What is Romeo sad about at the very beginning of the play?

a)

Juliet doesn't love him.

b)

Rosaline doesn't love him.

c)

His mother doesn't love him.

d)

His cousins have left him home alone.

28.

When Romeo first meets Juliet, what important piece of information is he lacking?

a)

She is older than him.

b)

She is married.

c)

She has a nurse who follows her around.

d)

She is a Capulet.

29.

When Romeo first sees Juliet. . .

a)

he is immediately in love.

b)

he doesn't really notice her.

c)

he mistakes her for her cousin, Tybalt.

d)

he steps on her foot.

30.

What is the "Prologue"?

a)

The end of the play that tells you what happens to the characters after the play ends.

b)

A missing scene.

c)

The first 14 lines of the play that give the backstory.

d)

The climax of the story.

31.

What do we know learn from the Prologue?

a)

The names of all the characters.

b)

That the Montagues and Capulets have been fighting for a long time.

c)

That Romeo loves Rosaline.

d)

The friar's first name.

32.

What do you call a phrase that seems like a contradiction yet carries meaning?

a)

A paradox

b)

A metaphor

c)

A simile

d)

A sonnet

33.

Which of these is an oxymoron?

a)

big shoes

b)

peaceful war

c)

tall building

d)

ripe fruit

34.

Why doesn't Romeo want to fight Tybalt?

a)

He is afraid of Tybalt.

b)

Tybalt had previously almost killed him in a fight.

c)

He remembers that his mother does not want him to fight.

d)

He is now married to Tybalt's cousin. They are family.

35.

Why does Tybalt want to fight Romeo?

a)

Tybalt feels insulted that Romeo came to a Capulet party.

b)

Tybalt saw Romeo flirting with Juliet.

c)

Tybalt's uncle told him to kill Romeo.

d)

Tybalt is required to kill a Capulet.

36.

Although he originally said that anyone who fights will be put to death, what punishment did the prince give Romeo for killing Tybalt?

a)

death

b)

prison

c)

banishment

d)

nothing

37.

For the first half of the play, how does Juliet feel about Nurse?

a)

loving and trusting

b)

suspicious

c)

angry

d)

distant

38.

What causes Juliet to change her feelings toward the Nurse?

a)

Nurse refused to attend her wedding.

b)

Nurse tells Juliet's parents that Juliet has married Romeo.

c)

Nurse refuses to carry messages between Juliet and Romeo.

d)

Nurse advises her to marry Paris.

39.

What special talent does Friar have?

a)

he is an herbalist

b)

he practices yoga

c)

he paints

d)

he is a talented singer

40.

How does Juliet look on the morning of her marriage to Paris?

a)

dead

b)

nervous

c)

shy

d)

joyful

41.

What makes the Capulets and Montagues stop fighting?

a)

losing their money

b)

the advice of the nurse

c)

an order of the prince

d)

the death of their children

42.

unstressed then stressed syllable ( u / ) times 5

a)

iambic pentameter

b)

sonnet

c)

blank verse

d)

aside

43.

"My only ______, sprung from my only _________."

a)

love, hate

b)

Romeo, Montague

c)

infatuation, feud

d)

friend, enemy

44.

During the Balcony Scene, to what does Juliet compare Romeo's name?

a)

a rose

b)

a pilgrim

c)

the moon

d)

an angel

45.

How does Act 2 end?

a)

Romeo and Juliet's wedding

b)

Romeo and Juliet running off together

c)

Rosaline telling Romeo she loves him after all

d)

Tybalt dueling with Romeo

46.

"bright smoke"

"parting is such sweet sorrow"

a)

oxymorons

b)

puns

c)

asides

d)

soliloquies

47.

play with a sad ending, usually with death

a)

tragedy

b)

comedy

c)

sonnet

d)

drama

48.

Choose all of the following that describe the Prologue

a)

It gives the audience an expectation that the play must fulfil the terms set out in the prologue.

b)

It suggests the idea that Romeo and Juliet's fate is inescapable.

c)

It tells the audience loosely what is going to happen in the play.

d)

It is a speech given by a main character at the end of the play.

49.

A type of poem that includes three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

a)

Foil

b)

Sonnet

c)

Aside

d)

Blank Verse

50.

Who killed Tybalt?

a)

Paris

b)

Benvolio

c)

Romeo

d)

Mercutio