Characters and Conflict in Romeo and Juliet, Part 3 — Unit test Answers

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

Read these lines from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet.Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

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