Romeo and Juliet Test Review English 1, Honors

Characters  Who is Peter?  Nurse’s servant  Ruler of Verona?  Prince Escalus  Who is Benvolio?  Romeo’s cousin/Montague’s nephew  Where was Romeo banished?  Mantua  What is the name of Juliet’s father?  Lord Capulet  Who started the street fight with Gregory?  Sampson

o Who is Romeo’s mother? o Lady Montague o Who is heartsick over a girl he cannot have? o Romeo o Who was the Nurse? o Juliet’s nanny/caretaker o Who was the girl that denied Romeo’s love? o Rosaline o Who was Mercutio? o Romeo’s best friend/Prince’s cousin o What is the name of Juliet’s mother? o Lady Capulet o Who sells medicine and drugs due to his poverty? o The apothecary o Where is the setting of the play? o Verona, Italy o What is the name of Juliet’s suitor? o Paris

 Who is Romeo’s spiritual teacher and friend?  Friar Lawrence  Who was arranged to be married to Paris?  Juliet  Who is Romeo’s servant?  Balthazar  Who is Romeo’s father?  Lord Montague  Who was the hotheaded cousin of Juliet?  Tybalt

True/False o Romeo went to the party so that he could see Juliet. o False o Romeo and Juliet get married the day after they met. o True o Friar Laurence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because he believes it will end their families’ feuds. o True o The Nurse is a very intelligent woman who is highly respected. o True

o Rosaline could not be with Romeo because she was going to be a nun. o True o In the opening scene, Prince Escalus says that anyone who disturbs Verona again will be killed. o True o Tybalt wants to kill Romeo because he thinks that Romeo is at the party to meet his cousin Juliet. o False o The prologue tells about Romeo and Juliet’s inescapable death. o True o Capulet wants Tybalt to remove Romeo from the party. o False o Paris is a Montague. o False

o What starts the fight in Act 1, Scene 1? o A servant “bites his thumb”” (Sampson and Gregory) o Where does Romeo and Juliet fall in love? o At the Capulet party o Why does Romeo hate his own name? o Because it is Juliet’s enemy o Which 2 characters were most in favor of fighting? o Mercutio and Tybalt o When Romeo sees Juliet at the party, he falls________ o In love at first sight o Does the prologue tell the readers HOW the characters will die? o No o During Shakespeare’s time, the poor people who could not afford seats were called______ o Groundlings o When Lady Capulet tells Juliet of marriage plans, what does she say? o She’ll marry only if it’s Romeo.

 When Juliet says “that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” what does she mean?  Names are meaningless.  Who interrupts Romeo and Juliet’s conversation?  The Nurse  What day did Paris and Lord Capulet set the wedding on?  Thursday  What initially caused the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets?  The reason is unknown  William Shakespeare’s theater was called  The Globe Theater

Literary Elements  “feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health.”  Oxymoron  Verona, the balcony, the orchard, Friar Lawrence’s cell, Mantua  Setting  Only the audience knows that Romeo and Juliet are married but Tybalt does not.  Dramatic irony  Five sets of stressed and unstressed syllables  Iambic pentameter  “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a GRAVE man.”  pun

 Romeo says that he dreams that the night’s events will lead to his untimely death.  Foreshadowing  “Methinks I see thee, now thou are so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”  Foreshadowing

Quotations  “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.”  Romeo  “Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast.”  Friar Lawrence  “By giving liberty unto thine eyes. Examine other beauties.”  Benvolio  “O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”  Juliet  “A plague on both your houses! They have made worm’s meat of me.”  Mercutio

 “If ever you shall disturb our streets again, your lives should pay the forfeit of the peace.”  Prince Escalus  “His name is Romeo and a Montague. The only son of your great enemy.”  Nurse  “She hath not seen the change of fourteen years; let two summers wither in their pride ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.”  Lord Capulet  “Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you, here in Verona, ladies of esteem are already mothers.”  Lady Capulet