Romeo & Juliet Act 1 Quiz
20 points
Part 1: Multiple Choice—Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
1. In the Prologue, the chorus functions primarily as
a. A dramatic foil
b. A flat character
c. A round character
d. A narrator
2. What literary device is demonstrated in the following lines?
Sampson: Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals.
Gregory: No, for then we should be colliers.
Sampson: I mean, an we be in choler, we’ll draw.
Gregory: Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.
a. aside b. pun c. simile d. personification
3. In Act 1, scene 1, what is Romeo’s grievance?
a. He is in love with Rosaline, who does not return his love.
b. He is in love with Juliet, who does not return his love.
c. Tybalt has challenged him to a duel.
d. Mercutio is holding a grudge against him.
4.What literary term is demonstrated by the phrase “loving hate”?
a. Pun b. Simile
c. Oxymoron c. Dramatic foil
5.Who speaks the following line about Juliet?
“Let two more summers wither in their pride/Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.”
a. Capulet b. Lady Capulet c. Nurse d. Paris
6. How does Romeo find out about Capulet’s ball?
a. An illiterate servant asks him to read an invitation.
b. Prince Escalus orders Capulet to invite all the Montagues.
c. Juliet’s Nurse invites him.
d. He walks by the Capulet’s house and overhears the servants discussing the party.
7.How old is Juliet?
a. 18 b. 16 c. 14 d. 13
8.Which character provides this play with comic relief?
a. Paris b. Benvolio c. Nurse d. Tybalt
9.What does Lady Capulet mean by the following line?
“By my count, I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid.”
a. She means that Juliet is too young to be a mother.
b. She means that Juliet cannot marry until she is older.
c. She means that she was Juliet’s age when she became Juliet’s mother.
d. She means that she never should have been a mother.
10. To whom is Lady Capulet referring when she says this line?
“Verona’s summer hath not such a flower.”
a. Paris
b. Juliet
c. herself
d. Rosaline
Matching--Write the name of the character who best fits each description.
Characters:
Sampson Gregory Abram Benvolio Tybalt
Capulet Montague Lady Montague Lady Capulet Juliet
Paris Prince Romeo Nurse Mercutio
11. Romeo’s cousin who tries to break up the fight at the beginning of scene 1
12. Juliet’s cousin who recognizes Romeo at Capulet’s party
13. Young man who is lovesick for Rosaline at the beginning of the play
14. Tells a long, comic story about weaning Juliet
15. Tells a story about Queen Mab, the fairies’ midwife
16. A servant to Capulet who bites his thumb at the Montague servants
17. Threatens death to anyone who disturbs the streets of Verona again
18. Young man who asks Juliet’s father for her hand in marriage
19. Person who wants Juliet to wait two more summers before marrying
20. A Montague servant who fights in the opening scene