Transcription of Romeo and Juliet Acts 1-3 Test Study Guide
1 Romeo and Juliet acts 1-3 Test Study Guide This exam is worth 40 points total 2 points per question Questions 1-9 are multiple choice about the plot of the play ( acts 1-3) Questions 10-14: I will give you a quote and you have to identify which character is speaking, and explain what the quote means in your own words. You will also have to identify a literary term that is used within the quote. Questions 15-18: I will give you the definition of a literary term and you will identify the correct ter m (multiple choice) Questions 19-20: I will give you a quote and you have to identify the literary term used within the quote (multiple choice) Answer the following on a separate sheet of paper. These are your notes for the test, so they do not need to be in complete sentences: For Act 1 Who started the fight in the street? Who stops the fight? What is the punishment for continuing to fight? Who is Romeo in love with at the beginning of the play?
2 Why does Romeo not continue to pursue this particular person? For Act 2 Review the famous balcony scene. What comparisons does Romeo make in his famous speech (But soft! What light through yonder window )? Review the Friar s speech when we are first introduced to him in Act 2 and he is talking to himself before Romeo joins him. What does he say about nature? For Act 3 Review the conversation between Juliet and Lady Capulet in Juliet s room. What do they talk about? Why is Juliet so upset with the Nurse at the end of this act? Review the following quotes and be able to do the following: state which character is speaking, what the quote means, and if any lit terms are used. For this alliance may so happy prove / To turn your households rancor into pure love 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! Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man What s Montague?
3 It is nor hand, nor foot/ Nor arm, nor face. O, be some other name/ Belonging to a man. / What s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet. Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes, By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, That in thy likeness thou appear to us! Review all of the literary term definitions listed on your Literary Terms Grid handout!
