Love, Tragedy, and Drama: An Introduction to Shakespeare — Test Answers

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?

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

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?

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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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

Which best describes the primary conflict of Act IV, scenes iii-v of Romeo and Juliet ?

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?

Which excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet best reflects the play’s overall theme?

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.

Which is an example of dramatic irony in Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet ?

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

Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet . Nurse: O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day! Most lamentable day, most woeful day, That ever, ever, I did yet behold! O day! O day! O day! O hateful day! Never was seen so black a day as this: O woeful day, O woeful day! These lines help the reader better understand Nurse’s

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

Read Juliet’s dialogue from Act IV, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Or, if I live, is it not very like, The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of the place, As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are pack’d; In this excerpt, the motif of night emphasizes Juliet’s fear that

Read Capulet’s lines directed at Nurse from Act IV, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet . Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up; I’ll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste, Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: Make haste, I say. [ Exeunt .] Which phrase best restates "make haste”?

Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene v of Romeo and Juliet . Paris : Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this? Which best describes Paris’s reaction when he believes that Juliet has died?

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

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In Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet , how does Romeo react when he hears someone in Juliet’s tomb?