The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
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Part I. Literary Terms Matching.
Section A
1. Dramatic conventions
a. joke based on words with several meanings or on words that
sound a like, but have a different meaning
2. Soliloquy
b. a play in which a main character suffers a major downfall
3. Pun
c. device that a playwright uses to present a story on the stage that
the audience accepts as realistic
4. Imagery
d. long speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage
5. Tragedy
e. collection of sense images
Section B
6. Allusion
a. when the audience has important information that the
characters do not have
7. Aside
b. a long narrative speech
8. Monologue
c. reference to a statement, a person, a place or an event from
literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or
pop culture
9. Dramatic irony
d. words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or
to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by
the others on stage.
10. Foil
e. a character who is used as a contrast to another character
Part II. Multiple Choice.
11. In the Prologue a Chorus tells us all of these except:
a. sets the scene for us
b. outlines
the play’s plot
c. indicates the tragic outcome
d. apologizes for the plays flaws
12. The opening action of the play begins with:
a. fight between the servants of both houses
b. Romeo fighting Tybalt
c. a letter of apology
d. Lord Capulet planning a party
13. After stopping the fight, the Prince says, “If ever you break disturb our streets again, Your lives
shall pay the forfeit of the peace.” Meaning the punishment will be: a. death
b. banishment
c. imprisonment
d. paying a fine
14. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is sad because:
a. he has been denied the privilege of
courting Juliet
b. He is upset about his family’s continuing feud with the Capulet’s
c. his
love doesn’t love him
15. When Paris first asks Capulet for Juliet’s hand in marriage, Capulet tells him that Juliet:
a. is
too young for marriage, not seeing 14 years
b. is his only hope, the earth having swallowed
all, but she
c. must give consent to marry
d. all of these
16. During the Capulet feast, Tybalt becomes upset when he: a. recognizes Romeo’s voice
b. learns of Paris’s intentions to marry Juliet
c. discovers Rosaline with Romeo d. when
Capulet refuses to do anything about Romeo’s presence
e. both a and d
17. After their first meeting, Romeo and Juliet both realize that trouble is on the horizon because they
have: a. had bad dreams that predict gloomy futures
b. hidden secrets from their
parents
c. fallen in love with an “enemy”
18. According to Juliet, their love is too: a. rash
that ceases to be
d. all of these
b. unadvised
c. much like lightening
19. If his love is honorable, Juliet wants Romeo to:
a. ask her father’s permission to court her
b. send her a message about the time and place for their marriage
c. runaway with her to
Mantua
d. Disown his parents
20. Friar Laurence tells Romeo:
a. that he will not help him
b. that he will assist him
to turn in hopes of turning the rancor of the two households to pure love
c. that he should
abandon Juliet and stay with Rosaline
21. At the end of Act II, when Romeo and Juliet are married, the following people know of the
marriage:
a. Nurse
b. Friar Laurence
c. Bathasar
d. all of these
22. Mercutio is killed by Tybalt when: a. he trips and falls losing his sword
b.
Tybalt makes
a bold swashing move slicing Mercurtio’s neck c. Romeo steps in between them
23. Although Lady Capulet demands Romeo’s death, the Prince:
a. exiles Romeo at once or if
found within an hour he will die
b. imprisons Romeo for life
c. does what she asks and
orders Romeo’s death
24. Upon hearing the Prince’s sentence, Romeo is: a. greatly relieved and thankful
b. surprised
that his life has been spared
c. upset because banishment means the same as death
25. Capulet informs Paris that Juliet will:
a. not be ready to marry until her grief for Tybalt
heals
b. be ready to marry on Thursday
c. not be able to marry him because she is
already married to Romeo
26. Friar Laurence tells Juliet that she will need courage to:
a. obey her father and marry Paris
b. drink the distilled liquor he’s prepared
c. to commit suicide
27. Because Romeo never received the letter from Friar Laurence, Romeo:
a. goes to the
apothecary and buys poison so he can die at Juliet’s side
b. plans to kill Paris because he
wanted to marry Juliet
c. plans to stay in Mantua and mourn Juliet’s death
28. When Juliet discovers that Romeo is dead, Juliet:
a. tries to drink the poison from the bottle
b. tries to take poison from Romeo’s lips
c. stabs herself with Romeo’s dagger
d. all of
these
Part III. True and False. Mark A for TRUE and B for False.
29. Romeo and Juliet bury their parent’s strife with their deaths.
30. Romeo attends the Capulet feast because he wishes to forget Rosaline and meet Juliet.
31. Benvolio challenges Romeo to compare Rosaline’s beauty to the beauty of other maidens.
32. Juliet tells her mother that she will look at Paris with the intention of liking him.
33. Romeo and his friends arrive at the party in masks.
34. Romeo is fearful about entering the party because his fate is hanging in the stars.
35. Romeo and Juliet are drawn together at the party like magnets.
36. Upon meeting on the balcony, at the party, Romeo and Juliet pledge their love for each other and
plan to date.
37. Juliet compares their love to lightening that strikes and then disappears.
38. Friar Laurence fears that Romeo’s love for Juliet is untrue.
39. Friar Laurence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because he thinks that the marriage will bring
peace to the two families.
40. In the fight between Tybalt and Mercutio, Mercutio is mortally wounded because Romeo stepped
in between the two.
41. Mercutio condemns both families when he says, “A plague on both your houses.”
42. Friar John is delayed in delivering the letter to Romeo, so Romeo never receives it.
43. The Apothecary sells Romeo poison because he is poor and the gold coins are too tempting.
44. Only Friar Laurence knows the complete truth about the young lovers’ deaths.
45. Romeo says that Juliet doesn’t look dead when he finds her in the tomb.
46. Juliet awakens to find Romeo dead, having drunk poison.
47. Friar Laurence refuses to leave Juliet in the tomb.
48. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is not just the tragedy of two individuals, but of an entire town.
49. The Prince has also lost a brace of kinsmen by the end of the play.
50. The Prince tells the citizens of Verona at the end of the play that all are punished.