Download Romeo and Juliet Act II Quiz

Romeo and Juliet Act II Quiz
Directions: Choose the answer that best answers the following questions.
1. Juliet quickly admits that she loves Romeo because
a. she wants to marry him
b. she is sure his love is true
c. she is not a flirt
d. he overhears her talking about her love for him
2. In Act II, the action focuses on the wedding plans of Romeo and Juliet. How does the nurse
intensify the feeling of action when she brings Juliet the message from Romeo?
a. She goes on and on about her pains, thus leaving Juliet in suspense.
b. She refuses to pass on the message until she has been properly tipped.
c. She betrays Romeo and encourages Juliet to marry Paris.
d. She gives the message to Juliet’s mother instead of to Juliet herself.
3. In the balcony love scene, several of Juliet’s speeches convey a sense of foreboding. Which
of the following fears is not mentioned?
a. Their love is moving too swiftly.
b. Romeo will be discovered.
c. This love will result in her death.
d. Romeo could prove faithless.
4. When Friar Laurence aggress to marry the couple, his chief motive is to
a. please the lovers
b. prove that Romeo is insincere
c. prevent an elopement
d. end the feud between the fighting families
5. Dramatic irony occurs
a. whenever Shakespeare stages a fight scene
b. when the audience knows something that the characters in a play do not
c. when the friar believes he can unite the feuding families
d. when Juliet is insecure about Romeo’s true feelings
6. This line is an example of what literary term?
“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.”
a.
b.
c.
d.
metaphor
simile
personification
pun
7. This line has an example of what literary term?
“The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.”
a.
b.
c.
d.
metaphor
simile
personification
pun
8. These lines have an example of what literary term?
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
a.
b.
c.
d.
metaphor
personification
aside
oxymoron
Directions: Identify the speaker of the following quotations.
9. “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be;
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.”
10. To whom were those lines spoken?
11. “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.”
12. “He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
13. “Lord how my head aches! What a head have I!
It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.
My back a t’other side—ah, my back, my back!”
14. “O swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circle orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
15. “Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say it lightens. Sweet, good night!”
16. “Amen, amen! But come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight.”
17. “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?”
18. “If that thy bent of love be honorable,
Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,
By one I’ll procure to come to thee,
Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;
And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay”
19. Who is the speaker talking about in this quote?
“Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan’s the fairer face.”
20. What is meant by the following lines?
“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circle orb.
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
Swearing by the moon is bad because
a. swearing is bad
b. the moon is envious
c. the moon is always changing
d. the sun is brighter
21. What is being asked in this line?
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Why does Romeo have to have the name Romeo and be a Montague?
Where is Romeo?
What has Romeo done?
Why is Romeo such a romantic?
Directions: Translate the following lines on your own paper.
“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
Young son, it argues a distempered head
So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed.
Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
Extra Credit: Who spoke the previous lines?