Themes and Resolution in Romeo and Juliet, Part 8 — Unit test Answers

Read the excerpt from Act II, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.Juliet: The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse; In half an hour she promis’d to return. Perchance she cannot meet him: that’s not so. 5O! she is lame: love’s heralds should be thoughts,

Which lines from the excerpt support the inference that Capulet loves his daughter? Select 2 options.

Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun80Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.

Read this excerpt from a short story.The set committee had labored for weeks constructing a background to recreate a 1950s New York City neighborhood. The students in charge of costumes had scoured thrift shops for well-worn denim and leather. The cast had rehearsed lines and performed their songs until each member could recite their part forwards and backwards. But nobody wanted to perform for an empty house. The only remaining hurdle was the promotion of the play. As Pine Valley High’s first spring production, the student body would need to be convinced that West Side Story should not be missed.

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Contrast the characters in this excerpt from Act I, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Lady Capulet: This is the matter. Nurse, give leave awhile.We must talk in secret: nurse, come back again;I have remember’d me, thou’s hear our counsel.Thou know’st my daughter’s of a pretty age.Nurse: Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.Lady Capulet: She’s not fourteen.Nurse: I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth—And yet to my teen be it spoken I have but four—She is not fourteen.

Read this excerpt from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet. Benvolio: Here comes the furious Tybalt back again. Romeo: Alive! in triumph! and Mercutio slain! Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire-ey’d fury be my conduct now!90 Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again That late thou gav’st me; for Mercutio’s soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.95 Tybalt: Thou wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence. Romeo: This shall determine that. [They fight: TYBALT falls.]

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?75What! 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.

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Which element of a Shakespearean tragedy does the character of Paris represent in Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet?

Read the paragraph.As the names for the honor roll were announced, Omar heard his name. His posture straightened. He nodded and stifled a smile as his legs bounced a subtle beat beneath his desk. He closed his eyes briefly, silently willing himself to save his reaction for later.

Read the excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Capulet: O brother Montague! give me thy hand: This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more Can I demand.

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What is revealed through dialogue about the women’s feelings toward Paris? Select 3 options.

Read Romeo’s dialogue from Act V, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.How fares my Juliet? That I ask again;For nothing can be ill if she be well.

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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: Tut! man, one fire burns out another’s burning,One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish;Turn giddy, and be helped by backward turning;One desperate grief cures with another’s languish: 45Take thou some new infection to thy eye,And the rank poison of the old will die.

Read the dialogue between the two main characters in Act I, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: [To JULIET.] If I profane with my unworthiest handThis holy shrine, the gentle sin is this;My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,Which mannerly devotion shows in this;For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.

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Read the lines from Act II, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.