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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The nurse's statement, "Women grow by men," alludes to what?
(a) Responsibilty.
(b) Pregnancy.
(c) Social status.
(d) Wealth.

2. In lines 186-196, Romeo compares love to all of the following EXCEPT what?
(a) A clenching pain in the heart.
(b) A preserving sweet.
(c) A sea nourished with tears.
(d) A smoke made with the fume of sighs.

3. Why does Lady Capulet not feel Juliet is too young to get married?
(a) She herself was a mother at Juliet's age.
(b) She wants Juliet to become a mother soon.
(c) Juliet is a legal adult.
(d) She herself wants to marry Paris.

4. Civil blood has made civil hands unclean because ____________.
(a) All of the town's civilians are killing one another.
(b) Members of both families have joined the prince's war.
(c) The families' actions have made murder an acceptable act.
(d) Members of both families have killed one another.

5. Romeo claims he is in love as the play opens, but is unhappy because ______________.
(a) The girl he loves does not love him.
(b) He is already engaged to Juliet.
(c) His parents oppose the match.
(d) He has no intention of getting married.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Prince reveals that there have already been ____________.

2. At the Capulet party, Romeo takes Juliet's hand, then offers to do what?

3. In Act 1, Scene 3, Lady Capulet has summons Juliet to discuss what?

4. At the beginning of the play, Montague and Lady Montague are concerned about Romeo because _________.

5. The chorus promises that anything left out of the prologue will be __________.

(see the answer key)

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