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- 1. Multiple Choice
Who does Friar Laurence accuse of falling in and out of love so quickly?
Romeo
Benvolio
Mercutio
Juliet
- 2. Multiple Choice
Who does Lord Capulet want Juliet to marry?
Prince Escalus
Romeo
Paris
Benvolio
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who is unable to deliver a letter to Romeo in Mantua because of the plague?
Benvolio
Mercutio
Tybalt
Friar John
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which character dies from grieving for her son?
Lady Montague
Lady Capulet
Nurse
Rosaline
- 5. Multiple Choice
Who is Juliet's cousin, who killed Mercutio and then is slain by Romeo?
Benvolio
Paris
Tybalt
Prince
- 6. Multiple Choice
Romeo and Juliet are at times childish and impulsive. Their childishness and impulsivity that bring about their downfalls/deaths can be considered these.
comic relief
tragic flaws
dramatic irony
foils
- 7. Multiple Choice
When Juliet is about to drink the poison in Act 4, the lines read: “No, no. This shall forbid it. [She lays down her knife.]. What is [She lays down her knife.]?
foreshadowing
dramatic irony
verbal irony
stage direction
- 8. Multiple Choice
When the audience (or one character) knows something that the other characters do not know. (Shakespeare uses this literary element to create suspense.) Example: Romeo believes Juliet is dead, but the audience knows that she is alive.
verbal irony
situational irony
dramatic irony
foreshadowing
- 9. Multiple Choice
A character who contrasts with a central character in order to highlight each other’s strengths/weaknesses.
foil
comic relief
tragic hero
antagonist
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the events below happens last?Romeo kills himself.Romeo kills TybaltJuliet kills herself.Romeo kills himself.
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the events below happens first?Romeo and Juliet meet.The Capulets and Montagues have a brawl.Romeo and Juliet get married.Romeo is exiled to Mantua.
- 12. Multiple ChoiceIn the end, Friar Laurence blames whom for the "death of the two lovers?"TybaltPrince EcalusHimselfBoth Families
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWho tells Romeo about Juliet's "death?"Friar L.MercutioBalthasarBenvolio
- 14. Multiple Choice
Mixed the potion that enabled Juliet to feign (fake) her death.
the Chorus
Tybalt
Prince Escalus
Friar Lawrence
- 15. Multiple Choice
First to discover Juliet after Juliet drinks the potion
Lord Capulet
Nurse
Paris
Benvolio
- 16. Multiple Choice
The Montagues and Capulets make peace at the end of the play
True
False
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWho are the tragic heroes?Romeo and JulietJuliet and Friar LawrenceNurse and Friar LawrenceRomeo and Tybalt
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the conflict in the play?Juliet does not want to marry Paris.Nurse refuses to help Juliet.The Capulets and Montagues are in a feud that prevents Romeo and Juliet from expressing their love.Juliet is in love with Tybalt, which is forbidden by her parents.
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which part of the plot is an example of dramatic irony?
Romeo not knowing that Juliet is actually alive, when the audience do know this
Romeo buying poison from an apothecary
Romeo being in a different city to Juliet
Romeo speaking in verse
- 20. Multiple Choice
Why was Friar John unable to deliver the letter to Romeo, telling him that Juliet's death was fake?
The was an outbreak of a disease, so he couldn't leave Verona
He was unable to get transport to Mantua
He had to help and elderly family in need
He decided not to go as Romeo was a criminal
- 21. Multiple Choice
Who tries to make Juliet leave the tomb, once she's discovered Romeo's dead body?
Friar Laurence
Friar John
The Prince
Lord Capulet
- 22. Multiple Choice
Who is Rosaline?
A Montague
The girl Romeo is pining for (the girl he loves)
Tybalt's sister
Benvolio's wife
- 23. Multiple Choice
When Juliet says, "That which we call a rose/By any other word would smell as sweet", she is...
explaining why she is so upset that Romeo is a Capulet.
giving an example to prove that names are important.
stating that Romeo's last name does not make him a bad person.
commenting on the origin of the word rose.
- 24. Multiple Choice
What does Juliet plan to do the day after she and Romeo declare their love for each other?
She plans on flirting with Benvolio, Romeo's cousin.
She plans to tell Rosaline that Romeo is a player.
She plans to send a messenger to Romeo, so he can arrange for a marriage ceremony.
She plans to tell her fellow Capulets about Romeo being a stalker.
- 25. Multiple Choice
Friar Lawrence believes the marriage might ----------------.
cause greater fighting among the families.
cause the Prince to lift the law against fighting.
allow more marriages between the families.
end the feud between the families.
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