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Romeo and Juliet Act 1
Romeo and Juliet Act 1
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GR9 R&J pre-test
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In Act 1 Scene 3 the lines seems to indicate that Lady Capulet is...
About 38 years old
Older than the nurse
Older than Lord Capulet
About 28 years old
2
The servants and lower classes in the play...
Speak in prose
Speak very slowly
Speak in verse
Speak very quickly
3
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Oxymoron
4
I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
Benvolio
Mercutio
Lord Capulet
Romeo
5
'...Her waggoner, a small grey gnat."
Lady Capulet
Juliet
The Nurse
Queen Mab
6
In Act 1 the scenes involving the nurse...
created conflict
created suspense
created tension
create comic relief
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Who says "...By my count,/ I was your mother much upon these years/ that you are now a maid..."
Juliet
Lady Montague
Lady Capulet
The Nurse
8
"I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,/Now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall."
Gregory
Abraham
Tybalt
Sampson
9
A poetic device from the Greek words meaning sharp and dull.
Soliloquy
Oxymoron
Couplet
Conceit
10
"That dreamers often lie." Identify the literary device.
Metaphor
Conceit
Pun
Oxymoron
11
In the play, "She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow."
Juliet
Lady Montague
Diana
Rosaline
12
Benvolio is introduced as a....?
Troublemaker
Comical character
Peacemaker
Serious character
13
How many brawls occurred before the Prince decided to become involved in the feud?
Two
Three
One
Four
14
Well, Susan is with God. She was too good for me.
Abraham
Lady Capulet
The nurse
Lady Montague
15
Mercutio believes that we...
We dream of about things that relate to our lives
We should never ignore our dreams
We give up control of our minds to Queen Mab
We should pay close attention to dreams
16
Juliet was born in this month.
April
May
July
June
17
Oxymorons are used to show that a character is....
Excited
Confused
Confident
Delighted
18
My only love sprung from my only hate. /Too early seen unknown, and known too late.
Personification
Rhyming couplet
Conceit
Oxymoron
19
I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain.
Tybalt
Mercutio
Benvolio
Queen Mab
20
"I will take the wall any man or maid of Montague's" The speaker is feels this is ...
A sign of weakness
A sign of superiority
A sign of politeness
A sign of happiness
21
What is the setting of Romeo and Juliet?
Verona
Veruna
Mantua
Verutio
22
"...Verona brags of him/To be a virtuous and well-governed youth."
Romeo
Abraham
Benvolio
Sampson
23
If he be married,/My grave is like to be my wedding bed."
Juliet feels that she will only truly love Romeo
Juliet thinks there's not going to be a wedding
Juliet thinks that Romeo may die if they marry each other
Juliet feels that graves are like wedding beds.
24
I fear, too early, for my mind miisgives /some consequences yet hanging in the stars.
Conceit
Oxymoron
Premonition
Proverb
25
What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word.....
Montague
Benvolio
Capulet
Tybalt
26
I am spoken by the chorus in Romeo and Juliet.
Soliloquy
Conceit
Light imagery
Prologue
27
The all seeing sun never saw her match since first the world began.
Rosaline
Juliet
Queen Mab
Diana
28
"The which if you with patient ears attend....our toil shall strive to mend."
Oxymoron
Personification
Premonition
Metaphor
29
This precious book of love, this unbound lover/to beautify him only lacks a cover.
Personification
Conceit
Oxymoron
Proverb
30
Who says "Am I
the master here or you? Go to!"
Tybalt
Samson
Lord Capulet
Lord Montague
31
This character is not a member of the royal house.
Paris
Escalus
Benvolio
Mercutio
32
The nurse has this many teeth.
0
12
14
4
33
"Let two more summers wither in their pride/Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride."
Years are compared to a bride
Years are compared to fruit
Years are compared to pride
Years are compared to summers
34
She hangs upon the cheek of night/like a jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
Metaphor
Simile
Conceit
Personification
35
Shakespeare's characters who are of high status in the play mainly...
Speak in prose
Speak very slowly
Speak in verse
Speak very quickly
36
"Many a morning hath he there been seen,/with tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew."
Imagery
Oxymoron
Pun
Personification