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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mercutio asks Romeo to leave the nurse and do what?
(a) Come to the Capulet's party.
(b) Come to his father's house for dinner.
(c) Come to meet Tybalt's challenge.
(d) Come to view other beauties.

2. In Act 1, Scene 3, Lady Capulet first asks the nurse to do what?
(a) Summon Capulet, then changes her mind.
(b) Stay, then asks her to leave.
(c) Leave the room, then asks her to stay.
(d) Call Juliet, then changes her mind.

3. Juliet considers herself wealthy in Act 2, Scene 6 because __________.
(a) Her father is wealthy.
(b) Romeo's family is wealthy.
(c) She has true love.
(d) She will have a large inheritance.

4. Finally, the nurse advises Juliet to ____________.
(a) Seek happy nights to happy days.
(b) Seek a husband who will stand up to her father.
(c) Seek love wherever she can find it.
(d) Seek her own husband.

5. Who arrives to talk to Romeo in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Montague.
(b) The Nurse.
(c) Tybalt.
(d) The friar.

6. What will be Juliet's excuse for leaving the house to go to church that afternoon?
(a) She will say she is going to meet Paris.
(b) She will say she is going to meet Tybalt.
(c) She will say she is going to confession.
(d) She will say she is going to marry Romeo.

7. In Act 1, Scene 2, Romeo compares his thwarted love for Rosaline to ______________.
(a) Joy and delight.
(b) Ignorance and illiteracy.
(c) Illness and a cure.
(d) Madness and imprisonment.

8. In Act 2, Scene 5, the nurse says that Juliet's choice in Romeo is ___________.
(a) Too hasty.
(b) Upsetting to her parents.
(c) Simple or foolish.
(d) Wise beyond her years.

9. In Act 1, Prologue, the chorus asks the audience to be what?
(a) Fair.
(b) Participatory.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Patient.

10. Who advises Romeo to "beat love down"?
(a) Tybalt.
(b) Balthasar.
(c) Benvolio.
(d) Mercutio.

11. In Act 2, Scene 3, the friar believes Romeo never went to bed because ___________.
(a) He was with Rosaline.
(b) He was fighting with Tybalt.
(c) He was hiding from his father.
(d) He was carousing drunkenly with his friends.

12. The friar compares too-passionate love to what?
(a) Fire and gunpowder.
(b) Gunpowder and bullets.
(c) Fire and water.
(d) Swords and guns.

13. Why is there more "peril" in Juliet's eye than in her kinsmen's swords?
(a) Because Juliet's love is unhealthy.
(b) Because Juliet is deceitful and may kill him.
(c) Because the risk of loving Juliet puts him in danger.
(d) Because Romeo cannot fight a female.

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

15. The Capulet servant approaches Romeo in Act 1, Scene 2 to ask him what?
(a) Advice about delivering the invitations.
(b) If Romeo would like to attend the party.
(c) If Romeo can read.
(d) Directions to Capulet's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act 2, Scene 5, the nurse shares Romeo's plan to do what?

2. Romeo dares death to ________________.

3. Romeo arranges to send a man to the nurse with _______________.

4. Juliet's behavior toward her mother could be described as __________.

5. In the play's first scene, Benvolio advises Romeo to _________.

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