Study Guide Test(ANSWERS)Hr
ROMEO & JULIETName:
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Study Guide – Test(ANSWERS)Hr:
Identify the following characters
1) Romeo – Young man from Verona who falls in love with Juliet and kills Tybalt, Paris
2) Juliet – Teenage girl from Verona who falls in love with Romeo
3) Tybalt – Juliet’s cousin who kills Mercutio
4) Mercutio – Romeo’s loyal friend who is killed by Tybalt
5) Friar Lawrence – Married Romeo & Juliet, devises a plan to bring Romeo & Juliet together at the end
6) Nurse – Servant of the Capulet household, very close with Juliet, brings message to her and Romeo
7) Prince – Ruler of Verona who banishes Romeo for committing murder
8) Paris – Cousin of the Prince who wishes to wed Juliet but is later killed by Romeo
9) Capulet – father of Juliet who forces her to marry Paris
10) Benvolio –Romeo’s cousin who seeks peace and tries to avoid conflict
Define the following
11) round character – a character with many personality traits, like a real person
12) grievance – injustice; complaint
13) transgression – wrongdoing; sin
14) cunning – cleverness; slyness
15) procure – get
16) intercession – the act of pleading on behalf of another
17) waverer – one who changes or is unsteady
18) soliloquy – a lengthy speech in which a character, usually alone on stage, expresses his/her thoughts to the
audience
19) monologue – a lengthy speech addressed to the other characters on stage, not to the audience
20) allusions – references to well-known people, places, or events from myths or literature
21) exile – banish
22) eloquence –speech that is vivid, forceful, graceful, and persuasive
23) fickle – changeable
24) pensive – thinking deeply or seriously
25) loathsome – disgusting
26) dismal –causing gloom or misery
27) pilgrimage – long journey, often for religious purposes
28) cause – an action, an event, or a situation that produces a result
29) effect – the result produced by a cause
30) remnants – remaining persons or things
31) penury – extreme poverty
32) ambiguities – statements or events whose meanings are unclear
33) scourge – whip or other instrument for inflicting punishment
34) tragedy – a drama in which the central character…meets with great disaster or misfortune.
35) character’s motive –the reason behind an individual’s thoughts or actions
Identify the important event(s) from the following
36) Act I, Scene I – a brawl takes place in Verona between the Montagues and Capulets. The Prince warns the two families that if either of them fight in the streets again then the punishment is death.
Also, we find out that Romeo is sadly in love with Rosaline as she doesn’t love Romeo back.
37) Act I, Scene II – Paris asks Capulet for permission to marry his daughter Juliet
38) Act I, Scene V – Romeo & Juliet see each other for the first time and fall in love.
Also, Tybalt sees Romeo at the Capulet party and is offended. He vows revenge against Romeo.
39) Act II, Scene II – Romeo & Juliet profess their true love to each other and vow to get married.
40) Act II, Scene III –Romeo meets with Friar Lawrence and asks him to marry he and Juliet. Friar Lawrence agrees to do so in order to bring the two families together to end their feud.
41) Act II, Scene VI – Romeo & Juliet get married. Friar Lawrence warns them to love each other moderately.
42) Act III, Scene I – Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo kills Tybalt and Prince banishes Romeo from Verona.
43) Act III, Scene III – Friar Lawrence send Romeo to Mantua and comes up with the idea of reuniting he
and Juliet
44) Act III, Scene V –Romeo and Juliet see each other for the last time. Capulet is forcing Juliet to marry Paris.
45) Act IV, Scene I –Juliet meets with Friar Lawrence and he devises a plan for Juliet to avoid marrying Paris
while reuniting she and Romeo.
46) Act IV, Scene V – Juliet is found dead (but not really dead) by the Nurse
47) Act V, Scene I – Romeo finds out that Juliet is dead, so he decides to buy poison to kill himself
48) Act V, Scene III –Paris find Romeo at the Capulet tomb and they fight before Romeo kills Paris. Juliet also
wakes up to find out Romeo is dead and then kills herself.
The Prince investigates the deaths of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris while blaming the families
for the deaths of everyone involved.
Capulet and Montague end the feud between the families.
Identify how the play exemplifies the following themes
49) Love as a Powerful Force
Love for Romeo and Juliet defies their social world; their values, friends, family. Juliet asks Romeo to deny his father and refuse his name and if not, she will no longer be a Capulet.
Romeo abandons Mercutio and Benvolio after the party to see Juliet.
Romeo comes back to Verona after he was specifically banished by the Prince in order to see Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet went behind their parents to meet and get married despite knowing how forbidden it was.
All this proves to show how much love was an overpowering force in the play.
50) Love as a Cause of Violence
The love of Romeo & Juliet links hate and violence because their love does lead to suicidal thoughts and eventually their deaths. Their love and connection at the Capulet party lead to Tybalt’s hate for the Montagues grow stronger and more passionate.
Juliet wanted to commit suicide in Friar Lawrence’s cell since she had to marry Paris.
Romeo wanted to commit suicide in Friar Lawrence’s cell since he was banished from Verona.
Eventually, Romeo and Juliet commit suicide when each of them thought the other was dead and didn’t want to live anymore because of it.
51) Fate Taking Its Place
The chorus at the beginning of Act I let the audience know that two lovers had a fate that cost them their lives.
Romeo defied his fate by going to see Juliet at the tomb and then taking his own life which then led Juliet to controlling her own fate by taking her own life.
The horrible set of accidents that ruined Friar Lawrence’s plans eventually led to the fate of the two lovers.
-Friar John was never able to get the letter meant for Romeo to him
-Capulet brought up the wedding date of Paris and Juliet.
Translate the following
Act V, Scene III - Paris
52) This is that banished haughty Montague
That murd’red my love’s cousin – with which grief
It is supposed the fair creature died –
And here is come to do some villainous shame
To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.
Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague!
It’s that arrogant Montague, the one who’s been banished.
He’s the one who murdered my love’s cousin and
she died with grief for that cousin.
This guy has come here to commit awful crimes
against the dead bodies. I will catch him
Stop your unholy labor, vile Montague!
Act III, Scene II - Nurse
53) There’s no trust,
No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
Ah, where’s my man? Give me (brandy).
These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.
Shame come to Romeo!
There is no trust,
No faith, no honest in men; all of them lie.
All of them are liars, nothings, all hypocrites.
Ah, where’s my servant? Give my brandy.
These grieves, these pains, these sorrows make me old.
Shame on Romeo!