Romeo and Juliet Test Prep

Question 1

Confession

Accepted Answer

Shrift

Question 2

Juliet's cousin who killed Mercutio

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Tybalt

Question 3

Who was able to make medicines and poisons from plants AND agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet?

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Friar Laurence

Question 4

To cleanse or free from impurities

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Purged

Question 5

Saying one this IS another

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Metaphor

Question 6

Funeral songs or hymns

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Dirge

Question 7

Who was Romeo's father?

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Lord Montague

Question 8

He banished Romeo from Verona

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Prince Escalus

Question 9

What is a thrust stage?

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A stage that juts out with the audience on three sides

Question 10

Postpone; discontinue a session

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Prorogue

Question 11

Foreboding; indicating evil to come

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Portentous

Question 12

Who typically filled the female roles in Shakespeare's plays?

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Men and boys

Question 13

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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Couplets

Question 14

At once! Soon! Coming!

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Anon

Question 15

Who in the play is 13 years old?

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Juliet

Question 16

Bitterness

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Rancor

Question 17

Who gave a feast to introduce Juliet to bachelors of the city?

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Lord Capulet

Question 18

Name of Shakespeare's Theater

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The Globe

Question 19

Evil; wicked

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Pernicious

Question 20

Soft, moist mass used as a remedy

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Poultice

Question 21

Using a person, place or thing to stand for itself and something beyond itself

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Symbolism

Question 22

Poetry written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

Question 23

Intentions

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Drift

Question 24

Trinket; showy but worthless object

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Bauble

Question 25

Who asks the Prince to execute Romeo for killing Tybalt?

Accepted Answer

Lady Capulet

Question 26

Verse with 5 metrical feet (unstressed the stressed)

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Iambic Pentameter

Question 27

Deep-seated, often mutual hatred

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Enmity

Question 28

Who explained how Tybalt died and was known as a peacemaker?

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Benvolio

Question 29

The character is alone, expressing inner thoughts

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Soliloquy

Question 30

She was Juliet's confidante until she ecouraged her to marry Paris

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Nurse

Question 31

Central idea of a work

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Theme

Question 32

What is the setting of Romeo and Juliet?

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Verona and Mantua

Question 33

During what century was Shakespeare born?

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16th

Question 34

A play on multiple meanings of a word

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Pun

Question 35

When the audience knows something that the characters don't know

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Dramatic Irony

Question 36

Who kills Tybalt and Paris?

Accepted Answer

Romeo

Question 37

Types of plays Shakespeare wrote

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Comedies, tragedies, histories, romances

Question 38

The most exciting moment in the story

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Climax

Question 39

Capacity or ability for giving generously

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Bounty

Question 40

How does Romeo die?

Accepted Answer

He drinks poison when he thinks Juliet is dead

Question 41

How was lighting provided in Shakespeare's theater?

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Daylight/Sun

Question 42

Giving human qualities to non-human things

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Personification

Question 43

Who wanted to marry Juliet?

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Paris and Romeo

Question 44

People who hold opinions against Church teachings

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Heretics

Question 45

What happed to Lady Montague?

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She died of grief over Romeo's banishment

Question 46

Who was the Count, favored by Lord and Lady Capulet to marry Juliet?

Accepted Answer

Paris

Question 47

What is known about scenery in the Shakespearean theater?

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It only included what the play language suggested was needed

Question 48

Saying one thing is "like" or "as" another

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Simile

Question 49

Series of related events in a story

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Plot

Question 50

Person who does tedious, menial, unpleasant work

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Drudge

Question 51

Regard with respect

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Esteem

Question 52

When and where the story takes place

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Setting

Question 53

Frown or threatening look

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Lower

Question 54

The use of clues to suggest what will happen

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Foreshadowing

Question 55

Private thoughts, secret plan

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Counsel

Question 56

Shakespeare lived during what time?

Accepted Answer

1564-1616

Romeo and Juliet Test Prep

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