1. the central idea in act v of the tragedy of romeo and juliet concerns the (1 point)
joys of love.
dangers of disobedience.
evils of money.
power of chance.
2. in act iv, scene 1 of romeo and juliet, paris tells friar lawrence, "immoderately she weeps for tybalt's death, / and therefore have i little talked of love." what makes paris's comment an example of dramatic irony? (1 point)
juliet is saddened by the death of tybalt.
juliet is actually weeping over romeo's banishment.
juliet is pretending to cry in order to avoid seeing paris.
juliet was in love with her cousin tybalt.
3. in romeo and juliet, which of the following illustrates shakespeare's use of comic relief? (1 point)
a servant explains to capulet that cooks should lick their own fingers.
capulet believes that juliet is dead when she is really only sleeping.
"honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up; for well you know this is a pitiful case."
a nurse claims to be too tired to give juliet romeo's message.
4. read the following line from romeo’s monologue in act ii, scene 2 of romeo and juliet, where shakespeare employs personification:
arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
who is already sick and pale with grief,
that thou her maid art far more fair than she:
be not her maid, since she is envious…
in this quote, romeo refers to juliet as the sun and rosaline as the moon. what does romeo intend to say in these lines? (1 point)
romeo says he is now in love with juliet instead of rosaline.
romeo says that rosaline is more beautiful than juliet.
romeo says that juliet is envious of rosaline.
romeo says he has love for juliet and rosaline.
5. read the following line from act iv, scene 5 of romeo and juliet, when capulet speaks of juliet’s death:
death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail,
ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak.
what effect does shakespeare's use of personification have? (1 point)
it emphasizes the extent of capulet’s grief.
it compares capulet’s grief with death.
it sets the scene’s informal tone.
it explains capulet's feelings about death.
6. read capulet’s lines from act iv, scene 5 of romeo and juliet, regarding juliet's apparent death:
death lies on her like an untimely frost
upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
how does this example of dramatic irony create tension? (1 point)
readers know that juliet is actually sleeping.
readers know that capulet causes juliet’s death.
readers know that juliet has been dead for hours.
readers know that capulet is grieving over juliet’s death.
7. read the following speech by the nurse to juliet in act iii, scene 2:
there's no trust,
no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,
all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
which of the following is the best paraphrase of this speech? (1 point)
men are not to be trusted. unfaithful and dishonest, they are all liars and hypocrites.
"men," says the nurse, "are not worth your trouble. they are all liars."
the nurse tells juliet in no uncertain terms that she disapproves of men.
men are evil. they are not worthy of your trust.
8. what can readers infer from the following quote from act v, scene 3 of romeo and juliet?
prince: a gloomy peace this morning with it brings;
the sun for sorrow will not show his head.
go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
some shall be pardon’d, and some punished;
for never was a story of more woe
than this of juliet and her romeo.
(1 point)
all will be forgiven.
some characters may be banished from verona.
the capulet-montague feud will never be resolved.
the capulets and montagues will experience peace for a period of time.
9. which of the following quotes spoken by romeo shows the strongest example of how he changes over the course of romeo and juliet? (1 point)
“sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! / would i were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest! ”
“with rosaline, my ghostly father? no; / i have forgot that name, and that name’s woe.”
“good morrow to you both. what counterfeit did i give you? ”
“let me have / a dram of poison; such soon-speeding gear / as will disperse itself through all the veins that the life-weary taker may fall dead”
10. in act iv, scene 1 of romeo and juliet, two days before her scheduled wedding to paris, juliet tells friar lawrence all the things she would rather do than marry paris. which of the following lines from her monologue foreshadow the outcome of the play? (1 point)
"o, bid me leap, rather than marry paris, / from off the battlements of any tower,"
“or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk / where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears,"
"or bid me go into a new-made grave / and hide me with a dead man in his shroud—"
“things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble—"