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What is the purpose of the prologue of Romeo and Juliet ? Choose three correct answers.

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to set up the central conflict between the families
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to lay out specific details about different plot points
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to inform the audience where the story takes place
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to invoke feelings of sympathy in the audience
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to introduce the audience to important characters
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pretty city called Verona

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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet. If ever you disturb our streets again Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. What event is foreshadowed by the Prince’s words?

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Romeo and Juliet meeting at a wild party
B
Romeo and Juliet disobeying their parents
C
Romeo and Juliet’s secret wedding
D
Romeo and Juliet’s tragic deaths
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet . Capulet : What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho! Lady Capulet : A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword? Capulet : My sword, I say! Old Montague is come, And flourishes his blade in spite of me. What is the purpose of this dialogue?

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to describe the setting
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to help build suspense
C
to provide comic relief
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to foreshadow a love scene
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet. Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love: Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing! of nothing first create. O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost thou not laugh? The oxymorons in Romeo’s dialogue emphasize

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his certainty about his romantic fate.
B
his confusion about Benvolio’s advice.
C
the extreme emotions that he is feeling.
D
the anger he feels toward a certain woman.
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet . Romeo: Well, in that hit you miss: she’ll not be hit With Cupid’s arrow; she hath Dian’s wit; And, in strong proof of chastity well arm’d, From love’s weak childish bow she lives unharm’d. The fact that this dialogue contains elements of a Shakespearean sonnet emphasizes Romeo’s

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disdain for Benvolio’s intrusive questions.
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wish that Benvolio could also experience love.
C
longing for the woman he is describing.
D
skepticism about the idea of being in love.
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loyal friend

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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet . Tybalt: What! art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death. Benvolio: I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, Or manage it to part these men with me. Tybalt: What! drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward! [ They fight .] Based on this dialogue, which word best describes Tybalt?

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disloyal
B
thoughtful
C
aggressive
D
careful
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Read the excerpt from Act III, scene v of Romeo and Juliet . Juliet : Madam, I am not well. Lady Capulet : Evermore weeping for your cousin’s death? 75 What! wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? And if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live; Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love; But much of grief shows still some want of wit. Which statement best describes Lady Capulet’s reaction to Juliet?

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She encourages Juliet to visit Tybalt’s grave.
B
She sympathizes with Juliet’s deep sorrow.
C
She suggests that Juliet’s crying is excessive.
D
She insists that Juliet express her feelings.
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene I of Romeo and Juliet . Romeo: Well, in that hit you miss: she’ll not be hit With Cupid’s arrow ; she hath Dian’s wit; And, in strong proof of chastity well arm’d, From love’s weak childish bow she lives unharm’d. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Which is the best meaning of the phrase "she’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow”?

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She loves Romeo but does not want to marry him.
B
She is too young to understand the meaning of love.
C
She does not want to fall in love with anyone.
D
She believes Romeo does not really love her.
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet . Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, 75 By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, Have thrice disturb’d the quiet of our streets, And made Verona’s ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments, To wield old partisans, in hands as old, 80 Canker’d with peace, to part your canker’d hate. Which best paraphrases why the prince is angry with Capulet and Montague?

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They were supposed to leave the town of Verona.
B
Their servants were left unattended on the street.
C
They were supposed to come see him on this day.
D
Their families have recently started three street fights.
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Read the excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence: Stay not to question, for the watch is coming; Come, go, good Juliet.—[ Noise again. ] I dare no longer stay. Juliet: Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. [ Exit FRIAR LAURENCE.] What’s here? a cup, clos’d in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after! I will kiss thy lips; Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative. [ Kisses him. ] Thy lips are warm! First Watch: [ Within. ] Lead, boy: which way? Juliet: Yea, noise? then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! [ Snatching ROMEO’S dagger. ] Which phrases from the passage are oxymorons? Choose two correct answers.

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happy dagger
B
good Juliet
C
true love’s hand
D
lips are warm
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timeless end
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Which element of a Shakespearean tragedy does Romeo represent in Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet ?

A
a flawed hero
B
a violent foil
C
a devious trickster
D
a wise mentor
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Read Friar Laurence’s dialogue from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . But he which bore my letter, Friar John, Was stay’d by accident, and yesternight Return’d my letter back. Based on these lines, what role did Friar John play in the catastrophe?

A
He made the choice not to deliver Friar Laurence’s letter.
B
He delivered Friar Laurence’s letter to the wrong person.
C
He continually forgot to deliver Friar Laurence’s letter.
D
He was prevented from delivering Friar Laurence’s letter.
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Which is an example of dramatic irony in Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet ?

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Balthasar agreed to deliver Romeo’s letter, and the audience knew the contents of the letter.
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Romeo thought Juliet was dead when he poisoned himself, but the audience knew she was alive.
C
Juliet knew Romeo was dead when she awakened, and the audience knew that she was correct.
D
Friar Laurence thought his plan would help Romeo and Juliet, but the audience knew he had evil intentions.
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet . Capulet: But saying o’er what I have said before: My child is yet a stranger in the world, 10 She hath not seen the change of fourteen years; Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride. Which is the best paraphrase of Capulet’s lines?

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Juliet is too young and not ready to be married for another two years.
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Juliet is a stranger to you, so you should get to know each other first.
C
Juliet will marry you after she has had her fourteenth birthday.
D
Juliet is old enough to be a wife, and she will be married in the summer.
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet . Capulet: And too soon marr’d are those so early made. 15 Earth hath swallow’d all my hopes but she, She is the hopeful lady of my earth: But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, My will to her consent is but a part; An she agree, within her scope of choice 20 Lies my consent and fair according voice. This night I hold an old accustom’d feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest Such as I love; and you, among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more. 25 Which lines from the excerpt support the inference that Capulet loves his daughter? Choose two correct answers.

A
Such as I love; and you, among the store,
B
But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,
C
One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
D
Earth hath swallow’d all my hopes but she,
E
She is the hopeful lady of my earth:
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Read the excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Prince: A glooming 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. Which words best help the reader understand the tone of the play’s conclusion? Choose three correct answers.

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pardon’d
B
woe
C
sad
D
sorrow
E
morning
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Read the excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Montague: Alas! my liege, my wife is dead to-night; Grief of my son’s exile hath stopp’d her breath. What further woe conspires against mine age? What is the best paraphrase of the underlined text?

A
What does getting older have to do with suffering?
B
What other pain must I suffer through as I get older?
C
What is the reason only older people experience pain?
D
What has caused me to feel as if I am getting older?
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Read the excerpt from Juliet’s soliloquy in Act IV, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then to-morrow morning? No, no; this shall forbid it: lie thou there. [ Laying down a dagger .] What if it be a poison, which the friar Subtly hath minister’d to have me dead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d Because he married me before to Romeo? I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not, For he hath still been tried a holy man. I will not entertain so bad a thought. The purpose of this soliloquy is to help the audience understand

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Juliet’s uneasiness about going through with her plan.
B
Juliet’s anger at the friar for marrying her to Romeo.
C
Juliet’s confusion about whether Romeo loves her.
D
Juliet’s shame at disgracing her family and Paris.

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