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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,50Or 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.]

A
Benvolio and Tybalt are both worried about disturbing the peace.
B
Benvolio is more concerned with keeping the peace than Tybalt is.
C
Benvolio is a much more skilled swordsman than Tybalt is.
D
Benvolio and Tybalt both want the feud between the families to continue.
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see his love, the fair Rosalinemake peace with the Capuletsruin the Capulets’ partyforget all about his heartache

A
see his love, the fair Rosaline
B
make peace with the Capulets
C
ruin the Capulets’ party
D
forget all about his heartache
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.Servant: God gi’ good den. I pray, sir, can you read?55Romeo: Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.Servant: Perhaps you have learn’d it without book: but, I pray, can you read any thing you see?Romeo: Ay, if I know the letters and the language. Servant: Ye say honestly; rest you merry! [Offering to go.] Romeo: Stay, fellow; I can read.

A
The servant needs directions.
B
The servant cannot see.
C
The servant needs to pray.
D
The servant cannot read.
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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, 10She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;Let two more summers wither in their prideEre we may think her ripe to be a bride.

A
Juliet will marry you after she has had her fourteenth birthday.
B
Juliet is old enough to be a wife, and she will be married in the summer.
C
Juliet is a stranger to you, so you should get to know each other first.
D
Juliet is too young and not ready to be married for another two years.
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.So early walking did I see your son:Towards him I made; but he was ware of me,110And stole into the covert of the wood:I, measuring his affections by my own,That most are busied when they’re most alone,Pursu’d my humour not pursuing his,And gladly shunn’d who gladly fled from me.

A
Romeo told Benvolio to turn away and leave him alone.
B
Benvolio lost track of Romeo in the busy Verona streets.
C
Romeo did not recognize Benvolio when he saw him.
D
Benvolio noticed that Romeo purposely hid from him.
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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?60Capulet: My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,And flourishes his blade in spite of me.Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE.Montague: Thou villain Capulet! Hold me not; let me go.Lady Montague: Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.65

A
They are very angry with their husbands for fighting with each other.
B
They are more concerned with keeping the peace than their husbands are.
C
They want the young men punished for fighting in the streets of Verona.
D
They do not like each other and are eager to continue the feud.
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: Here were the servants of your adversaryAnd yours close fighting ere I did approach:I drew to part them; in the instant cameThe fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepar’d, 95Which, as he breath’d defiance to my ears,He swung about his head, and cut the winds,Who, nothing hurt withal hiss’d him in scorn.

A
the servants of both houses
B
the Capulet servants and Tybalt
C
the Montagues and Benvolio
D
the people of Verona
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Which thou wilt propagate to have it press’dWith more of thine: this love that thou hast shownDoth add more grief to too much of mine own.

A
Your love and concern are making me feel even worse.
B
Your love and concern are the source of my sadness.
C
Your love and concern are a big surprise to me.
D
Your love and concern are lessening my own grief.
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.And hear the sentence of your moved prince.Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,75By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,Have thrice disturb’d the quiet of our streets,And made Verona’s ancient citizensCast by their grave beseeming ornaments,To wield old partisans, in hands as old, 80Canker’d with peace, to part your canker’d hate.If ever you disturb our streets againYour lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.

A
They will be banished from Verona.
B
They will have to pay a fine.
C
They will be punished by death.
D
They will have to have a duel.
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Which lines from the excerpt support the inference that Romeo is emotionally conflicted? Select 3 options.

A
Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will.
B
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
C
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
D
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
E
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
F
Dost thou not laugh?

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