Romeo and Juliet Review
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- Q1
How does Act 1, Scene 1 begin?
Tybalt is insulting someone
Capulet and Montague servants are fighting
Romeo and Rosaline are together
Romeo and Juliet meet
30s - Q2
What does "If ever you disturb our streets again/ Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace" mean?
Capulets and Montagues are confined to their homes
Whoever fights next will be killed
The fighters will have to work for the Prince
The fighters will pay a fine
30s - Q3
Who do Romeo and Juliet go to when they need help getting married?
Benvolio and Tybalt
Friar Laurence and Nurse
Rosaline and Nurse
Balthasar and Peter
30s - Q4
Why does Romeo kill Tybalt?
To prove to Benvolio he could fight
Tybalt threatened to expose Romeo and Juliet's marriage
To stop Tybalt from killing Balthasar
Tybalt provoked Romeo into fighting
30s - Q5
What makes Juliet pause before drinking the potion?
She is not sure Romeo will actually return to Verona to be with her
Her fear that if her parents think she is dead they will cremate her body
Her fear of being left in a tomb full of dead people
She considers that perhaps marrying Paris would be better after all
30s - Q6
When Prince Escalus arrives on the scene at the end of Act 5, who does he blame for the tragedy?
The dead lovers' parents
Tybalt and Romeo
The authorities of Mantua
Friar Laurence
30s - Q7
After their children's death, Montague and Capulet promise to honor each other's child by:
holding a banquet in their honor
building statues of them
burying them together
renaming the town for them
30s - Q8
Who ends the play, and what is his message?
Romeo ends it by asking Juliet to live happily ever after with him
Prince ends it by proclaiming the story of Romeo and Juliet the saddest story ever
Lord Montague ends it by subtly letting Capulet know that the feud is still on
The Friar ends it by leading all the characters in a prayer
30s - Q9
When Balthasar tells Romeo that Juliet is dead, Romeo cries, “I defy you, stars!” Who or what is Romeo blaming for Juliet’s death?
fate
society
judicial system
her parents
30s - Q10
Juliet changes in the play to become less
obedient toward her parents
jealous of Rosaline
willing to act quickly
interested in Romeo
30s - Q11
Which characters provide comic relief
Friar Laurence and Lady Montague
Mercutio and Nurse
Tybalt and Capulet
Paris and Benvolio
30s - Q12
Romeo's line "O brawling love! O loving hate!" is a reaction to hearing about the public fight between the families. What theme does this line introduce?
violence affects everyone, not just those who are fighting
the close relationship between love and hate
love conquers all
fate cannot be changed
30s - Q13
When a character in a play speaks words that only the audience is supposed to hear, it is called
pun
aside
allusion
monologue
30s - Q14
What is dramatic irony?
When a characters says one thing but means something else
When the audience knows something that the characters do not
When the characters know something that the audience does not
Irony that occurs in a play
30s - Q15
A soliloquy is an opportunity for:
characters to bring humor back into the play to relieve tensions
the audience to hear a single character's thoughts
a character to introduce themselves to another character
a musical interlude
30s