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WorksheetsRomeo and Juliet Acts 1-5
Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 31mins
Where is the play set?
Bologne, Italy
Verona, Italy
Rome, Italy
London, England
Who has been waiting for Romeo since he didn't return home from the party?
Benvolio and Mercutio
Lord and Lady Montague
Juliet
Friar Lawrence
Who knows about Romeo and Juliet's plan to get married?
The Nurse and Benvolio
Benvolio, Mercutio and Friar Laurence
The Nurse, Friar Laurence and Romeo's servant
Benvolio and Tybalt
Why does Tybalt want to fight Romeo?
Because he saw Romeo and Juliet, his cousin, talking
Because Romeo crashed the Capulet party
Because he finds Romeo a threat
Because Romeo threatened him first
How does Romeo contribute to Mercutio's death?
He duels Mercutio.
He tells Tybalt what Mercutio's weakness is.
He interferes with the fight to break it up and Tybalt stabs Mercutio.
He holds back Mercutio so Tybalt can kill him.
According to Juliet, what was her "sin?"
She lied to her father.
She opposed her father's wishes.
She raised her voice at her father.
She spoke ill of her father.
Lord Capulet's excitement to wake Juliet and get her ready for the wedding is an example of...
foreshadowing
dramatic irony
suspense
plot twist
Why doesn't Romeo know that Juliet is not truly dead?
The message was never delivered to him.
He was in another town.
Friar John didn't want to deliver the news to Romeo.
Romeo had a heart attack.
"This sight of death is like a bell that warns me I'm old and I'll die soon."
This quote by Lady Capulet is an example of .........?
simile
metaphor
personification
soliloquy
In Act 5, ___________________ irony is used when Romeo and the Capulet family believe that Juliet is dead. This is because the audience knows that she still alive.
situational
verbal
dramatic
Why has Romeo broken into the Capulet's burial chamber?
He wants steal Juliet's valuables to sell to the local pawn shop.
He wants to poison himself next to his wife's body to join her in death.
He wants to take Juliet's body back to Mantua with him for a proper burial.
He was told to get her when she wakes up and run back to Mantua.
When Juliet awakens to find Romeo and Paris dead, how does she decide to take her own life?
She drinks the remaining poison next to Romeo's body.
She slides the lid of her tomb back on to trap herself inside.
Juliet doesn't die.
She stabs herself with a dagger.
What could be viewed as a positive outcome from the ending of the play?
There is nothing positive that happens.
The family feud ends between the Montagues and Capulets.
The feud continues between the families.
When Scene 1 opens, in Romeo's soliloquy he reveals that he dreamed that Juliet found him dead. What literary element is this?
personification
flashback
foreshadowing
preview
When Romeo states, "That detestable maw, thou womb of death" what is he referring to? What literary element is this an example of? (5.3.45)
The tomb, a simile
The tomb, a metaphor
Death, a simile
Death, a metaphor
What's it called when we know what Romeo is there for, but Paris does not?
Situational Irony
Conflict
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
Romeo performs a long______________ before he drinks the potion and dies
soliloquy
monologue
Dialogue
Who does the prince blame for the deaths? He says all are to blame for the deaths of the two young lovers. Parents are at fault, the Nurse is at fault, the Friar is at fault, and even HE is at fault (he blames himself for being lenient with the feud and not putting an end to it sooner.) Due to them all being to blame, all are punished because all had a hand in the deaths and lost priceless young lives of the city.
everyone had a hand in it
the feud
Friar
The Nurse
___________ is a debate in the play. Romeo and Juliet continues to be a play that charges a debate on whether the two star-crossed lovers were at the hands of fate throughout the plot or if their own free will propelled the plot.
Fate vs. Life
Free will vs. Choice
Fate vs. Free Will
Fate vs. the gods
Dramatic Foil:
A character who is the same as another character in personality.
A character who is opposite of another character in personality.
A silly character who adds humor to a play.
A serious character who adds drama to a play.
Oxymoron:
“Juliet is the sun.”
“Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie.”
“A damned saint, an honorable villain”
“Smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
Personification:
“Juliet is the sun.”
Juliet alone on the balcony
Romeo has a bad dream.
“Smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
Dramatic Irony:
Juliet is alive, which the audience knows, but Romeo thinks she is dead
Juliet is alone on the balcony and the audience listens to her soliloquy.
The silly nurse from Romeo and Juliet
“A damned saint, an honorable villain”
Pun:
A group of words that starts with the same consonant sound.
A hint of what is to come
A play on words, two meanings are intended for a word
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things.
Soliloquy:
A type of drama that ends sadly
A reference to something or someone in history
A speech given to a group of people
A speech given alone on the stage
Allusion:
A reference to something or someone in history
a magic trick
Something humorous
A speech given alone on the stage
"It is the East, and Juliet is the sun."
oxymoron
metaphor
irony
euphemism
"My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words."
analogy
personification
malapropism
metaphor
"My life were better ended by their hate."
conceit
oxymoron
apostrophe
foreshadowing
"A thousand times goodnight."
pathetic fallacy
hyperbole
double entendre
epiphora
"bright smoke; cold fire; sick health"
double entendre
oxymoron
anastrophe
simile
"Ask for me tomorrow,and you shall find me a grave man."
metaphor
chiasmus
double entendre
pun
The prologue in Romeo and Juliet.The balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet.
oxymoron
dramatic irony
analogy
pathetic fallacy
