Romeo and Juliet Study Guide

Romeo and Juliet Unit Test

Each question is worth five points except the essay, which is worth 50 points.

1. List the five elements of a tragic hero.

2. List the five elements of a tragedy.

3. List the four elements of a sonnet.

4. List three things the prologue does.

5. Define monologue.

6. List two pairs of dramatic foils and explain how they are dramatic foils.

7. Give one example of a soliloquy from the play.  Name the speaker, where they are, and briefly what they are talking about.

8. Romeo and Juliet’s marriage is an example of ____________. (PLOT)

9. Romeo’s decision to go to the ball is an example of _____________. (PLOT)

10. Juliet stabbing herself with a dagger is an example of ___________. (PLOT)

11. The Prince announcing that the next bawl will result in death is an example of ____________. (PLOT)

12. What is the climax?

FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IDENTIFY THE SPEAKER:

13. “I do protest I never injured thee,

But love thee better than thou canst devise

Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.”   _______________

14. “Why, is not this better now than groaning for love?

Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now

art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature, for

this driveling love is like a great natural that runs

lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.”  _______________

15. “Hie you to church. I must another way,

To fetch a ladder by the which you love

Must climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark.

I am the drudge, and toil in your delight

But you shall bear the burden soon at night.” ______________

16. “Hang thee you baggage, disobedient wretch!

I tell thee what, get thee to church a Thursday,

Or never after look me in the face.

Speak not, reply not, do not answer me.” ______________

17. “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries

That thou has done me, therefore turn and draw.” ___________

18. “If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.

Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won,

I’ll frown and be perverse, and say thee nay,

So thou wilt woo; but else not for the world.” ____________

19. “Well, think of marriage now.  Younger than you,

Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,

Are already mothers.”                                 _____________

20. “I do but keep the peace, put up thy sword,

Or mange it to part these men with me.”   _____________

21. “Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast.” ______________

For the following questions circle the most sufficient answer.

22. “O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face!

Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical,

Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb

Despised substance of divinest show,

Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st

A damned saint, an honourable villain!”

A)   metaphor

B)   falling action

C)   oxymoron

D)   Juliet’s discovery of Tybalt’s death

E)    A and C

F)    All of the above

23. “O happy dagger this is thy sheath”

A)   personification

B)   oxymoron

C)   metaphor

D)   A and C

E)    All of the above

24. “These violent delights have violent ends

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder

Which, as they kiss, consume”

A)   rising action

B)   foreshadow

C)   implied metaphor

D)   simile

E)    all the above

25. “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.

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.”

A)   personification

B)   exposition

C)   metaphor

D)   A and C

E)    B and C

F)    All of the above

26. “A plague on both houses” is an example of

A)   exposition

B)   rising action

C)   foreshadow

D)   the revenge of the Queen of Mab

E)    B and C

F)    A and C

     

27. “She’ll not be hit/ With Cupid’s arrow/ And, in strong proof of chastity well armed/ She will not stay the siege of loving terms”

A)   Romeo’s discussion of Rosaline

B)   Rising action

C)   A metaphor comparing love to a battle

D)   A and C

E)    All the above

F)    Romeo’s stupidity

     The following questions are short answer.

28. The friar is a man of many plans.  Briefly outline the plans he lays in the play and how the affect the characters.

29. In your opinion why does the nurse betray Juliet?  How do you feel about her after she this event?

30. How long does the potion the Friar gives to Juliet last?

31. Briefly discuss who the Queen of Mab is and what she does.

32. What side of the feud is Sampson and Gregory on?  What is their role in the play?

33. How would you describe the relationship between Capulet and Lady Capulet?

34. What is original about the Pilgrim Sonnet?

35. Outline the following characters (flat, round, static, dynamic, color, etc.)

Romeo:

Juliet:

Nurse:

Capulet:

Mercutio:

36.    In the following page pick out 2 direct, 2 extended and 2 implied metaphors.

This will be ACT 5 Scene 3, Romeo’s big long soliloquy before he kills himself

 

Other things to know:

37. What is Romeo’s tragic flaw? 

38. Why does Capulet demand that Juliet marry Paris?

39. Describe one symbol in the play?

40. Define personification.

41. Define oxymoron.

42. Summarize each act of the play: briefly tell what happens in each ACT.

43. Name one theme of the play.

44. List the setting.

45. List two foreshadows.

46. Who is your favorite character?  Why?

47. Who is your least favorite character?  Why?

48. Who is the Romeo of the Freshmen class?

49. Tell me one thing you learned from Romeo and Juliet?

50. Discuss one symbol from the new movie?

51.  Name one allusion.  List where Mercutio’s name comes from and what Benvolio’s name means.