Romeo & Juliet Final Exam Review

Who arranges Juliet's marriage to Paris?

Lord Capulet

Who banished Romeo instead of killing him?

Prince

Who died of grief because of her son's banishment?

Lady Montague

Who is a Capulet and is in love with a Montague?

Juliet

Who is a Capulet killed by Romeo?

Tybalt

Who is a holy man who devises plans for Romeo and Juliet?

Friar Lawrence

Who is a kinsman to the prince and is killed by Romeo?

Count Paris

Who is a kinsman to the prince and is killed by Tybalt?

Mercutio

Who is a Montague and is in love with a Capulet?

Romeo

Who is a peacemaker who often tells about the fights?

Benvolio

Who is Juliet's mother?

Lady Capulet

Who is Romeo's father?

Lord Montague

What is the name of the narrator of the story in the first two acts?

The Chorus

Who serves as a messenger between Romeo and Juliet?

Nurse

Who sells poison to Romeo?

Apothecary

A comparison in which one thing is called another

metaphor

A comparison using "like" or "as"

simile

A main or recurring idea

theme

The use of words that sound alike but which have different meanings

homophones

A serious play in which the main character dies

tragedy

A situation which seems false but is true

paradox

A speech in which the actor shares his/her innermost feelings

soliloquy

A line which the audience hears, but the other characters do not.

aside

A reference to another work or event

allusion

Giving human traits to non-living things

personification

Who said the following?:

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?

Lord Montague

Who said the following?:

I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;

Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:

Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste,

Else, when he's found, that hour is his last

Prince

Who said the following?:

Go thither; and, with unattainted eye,

Compare her face with some that I shall show.

And I will make thee think they swan a crow.

Benvolio

Who said the following?:

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Romeo

Who said the following?:

I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,

And presently took post to tell it you:

O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,

Since you did leave it for my office, sir.

Balthasar

Who said the following?:

Help me into some house, Benvolio,

Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!

They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,

And soundly too: your houses!

Mercutio

Who said the following?:

Put this in any liquid thing you will

And drink it off, and, if you had the strength

Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.

Apothecary

Who said the following?:

Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Friar Lawrence

Who said the following?:

This is that banish'd haughty Montague,

That muder'd my love's cousin, in which grief,

It is supposed, the fair creature died;

And here is come to do some villanous shame

To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.

Count Paris

Who said the following?:

What's in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet:

So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd

Retain that dear perfection which he owes

Without that title.

Juliet

Who said the following?:

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.

The Chorus

Who said the following?:

Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn,

The gallant, young and noble gentleman,

The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,

Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.

Lady Capulet

Who said the following?:

What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,

As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:

Have at thee, coward!

Tybalt

Who said the following?:

Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a

courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I

warrant, a virtuous, --Where is your mother?

Nurse

How do the Capulets and Montagues compare in social status?

Two households both alike in dignity.

Who raised Juliet from birth?

Nurse

How does Juliet feel about Paris?

She doesn't want to marry him

How do Romeo and his friends get the guest list for Capulet's party?

Peter can't read so he asked them to read the list

How does Capulet respond to having Romeo and his friends at his party?

He doesn't care very much.

Romeo and Juliet experience "___________ at first ______________"

love

sight

Juliet is only ____________________ years old.

13

Do Romeo and Juliet ever discover that they are from feuding families?

Yes

Do Mercutio and Benvolio know of Romeo's love for Juliet?

No

Did Romeo and Juliet stay in love?

Yes

Friar Lawrence thinks Romeo and Juliet's marriage could do what for the families?

End the feud

Besides Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet's wedding is attended by ____________________.

Nobody

When Juliet first hears of Tybalt's death, what does she think has happened?

She thinks Romeo died.

Romeo thinks ____________________ is a punishment worse than death.

exile

The Nurse advises Juliet to marry ___________ after Romeo is banished.

Count Paris

Where is Juliet put after her "death?"

The Capulet tomb

What fears does Juliet have before taking the potion?

That the potion won't work, that she will actually die, and that she might wake up in the tomb and suffocate.

How does Juliet's household react to her "death"?

They cry and wail and then turn the party into a funeral

At one point, Juliet threatens to ________________ if Friar Lawrence does not help her.

kill herself

Romeo buys ____________________ from an apothecary.

poison

Why didn't Friar John deliver the letter to Romeo?

He was quarantined and no one wanted to touch the letter out of fear of infection.

How does Paris die?

Romeo kills him

Why does Juliet kiss Romeo after he is dead?

She hopes there is still poison on his lips

What is the relationship of the families like at the end of the play? How do we know?

They are in agreement. We know this because Lord Montague and Lord Capulet shake hands.

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