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Romeo and Juliet

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 9mins

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1.

As the play opens, Romeo is desperately in love with

a)

Juliet

b)

Mercutio

c)

Nurse

d)

Rosaline

2.

The setting of Romeo and Juliet is

a)

Athens, Greece

b)

Marseille, France

c)

Verona, Italy

d)

Liverpool, England

3.

In Act II, Shakespeare introduces Friar Laurence doing what?

a)

collecting flowers for their beauty.

b)

saying a mass for Tybalt.

c)

fighting with his conscience.

d)

collecting plants for medicinal use.

4.

When Juliet tells Romeo to “doff” his name, she is suggesting that he

a)

give it up for another.

b)

be ashamed of it.

c)

use it to cover himself.

d)

hold on to it.

5.

In the love scene between Romeo and Juliet in Act III, Juliet tells him:

"O God! I have an ill-divining soul.Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,As one dead in the bottom of a tomb"

This is an example of

a)

personification.

b)

amorous talk.

c)

alliteration.

d)

foreshadowing.

6.

Match the following

a)

Capulet

1.

Family that includes Juliet, Tybalt, and Nurse.

b)

Queen Mab

2.

Fills people’s brains with images of love.

c)

Imagery

3.

A picture painted with words by a writer.

d)

Mercutio

4.

Close friend of Romeo.

e)

Obituary

5.

Short biographical account of person’s life, published after his or her death.

7.

Match the following

a)

Montague

1.

Family that includes Romeo and Benvolio.

b)

Personification

2.

Provides animals, ideas, abstractions with human form and character.

c)

Plot

3.

Sequence of events unfolding in a particular order.

d)

Monologue

4.

Long speech in a play spoken by just one character.

e)

Purgatory

5.

The state between hell and heaven.

8.

Reorder the following

a)

Romeo’s friends find him obsessed with Rosaline.

b)

Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love without knowing one another’s true identity.

c)

Romeo’s friends see him alone at Capulet’s orchard and think he is still pining for Rosaline.

d)

Friar Laurence marries Romeo and Juliet, hoping that their marriage will heal the deep rift between their two families.

e)

Romeo accidentally slays Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin.

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9.

Reorder the following

a)

Juliet agrees to marry Paris.

b)

Juliet takes a powerful sleeping potion.

c)

Romeo buys poison from a wretched apothecary in Mantua.

d)

Romeo kills himself by taking poison.

e)

Juliet kills herself with a dagger.

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