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- 1. Multiple Choice
Shakespeare uses the prologue to inform the audience that _____________.
Romeo is a Montague & Juliet is a Capulet
Juliet is a widow
Romeo is a fugitive
The lovers from two feuding families will die
- 2. Multiple Choice
The Prologue calls Romeo and Juliet "star-crossed lovers."
What does "star-crossed" mean?
unlucky, doomed
lucky, blessed
hopeful, happy
shaped like a star
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhere is the play set?BologneVeronaRomeVenice
- 4. Multiple Choice
Romeo is a _______________ and Juliet is a _______________.Capulet, MontagueMontague, CapuletTybalt, MercutioMercutio, Tybalt - 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat insulting gesture is made at the beginning of the play?Flip off with the middle fingerA crude gesture pointed at someone's motherThe gesture of cutting the throat.The gesture of biting the thumb.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Who says this quote? "What? Drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward!"
Romeo
Tybalt
Prince
Benvolio
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Prince Escalus say he will do to anyone who fights in the future?Put them in jail.Make them live together.Punish them with death.banish them from Verona
- 8. Multiple ChoiceIn his conversation with Benvolio in Scene 1, Romeo appears _____________.happy and pleasantsad and moodyrough and angrysarcastic and rude
- 9. Multiple Choice
Out of the options below, which TWO are the most accurate reasons why Romeo decides to go to the Capulet party?
His friends pressure him to go
Rosaline will be there
He wants to fight the Tybalt
He has to spy on the Capulets for his father
- 10. Multiple Choice
Who wants to marry Juliet?
Mercutio
Benvolio
Prince Escalus
Paris
- 11. Multiple Choice
Who has raised Juliet like his/her own daughter?
Prince Escalus
Friar Lawrence
Nurse
Lady Montague
- 12. Multiple Choice
In scene 4, who tries to cheer up Romeo on the way to the Capulet party with some puns (play on words)?
Paris
Mercutio
Benvolio
Tybalt
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhen Tybalt tells Lord Capulet that Romeo is at the party, Lord Capulet tells him to _____.leave Romeo alonego kill Romeothrow Romeo out of the partyCall for the Prince
- 14. Multiple Choice
True or False: Romeo and Juliet kiss before they know each other's names.
True
False
- 15. Multiple Choice
When Romeo describes how family love has caused hatred for the opposite family, he says "O loving hate...O heavy lightness, serious vanity...feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health" (I.i.174-178). All of these are examples of what literary device?
simile
alliteration
hyperbole
oxymoron
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