Romeo And Juliet Act 2 Question Preview (ID: 49866)

a) playful

b) serious

c) romantic

d) talkative

a) love

b) death

c) dueling

d) dancing

a) Romeo is less certain about his love for Rosaline

b) Romeo has known Juliet longer than he has known Rosaline

c) Unlike Rosaline, Juliet is a Capulet

d) Unlike Rosaline, Juliet returns Romeo's love

a) Benvolio and Mercutio's impatience with Romeo

b) Friar Laurence's hesitation concerning Romeo's marriage

c) Romeo and Juliet's decision to get married

d) Juliet's growing impatience with her nurse

a) makes independent judgements

b) favors young lovers

c) dislikes the Capulets

d) looks beyond the immediate crowd

a) are worried that Romeo is dead

b) doubt Romeo's ability to win a duel with Tybalt

c) know Romeo is too distracted to fight well

d) think Romeo should wait to get married

a) find the rhythm and be sure to emphasize stressed and unstressed syllables

b) pay attention to punctuation rather than to line endings

c) watch for the rhymes that signal that something important is going to happen

d) read each though or phrase separately, and always pause at the end of the line

a) going on and on about her plans, thus leaving Juliet in suspense

b) refusing to pass on the message until she has been properly tipped

c) betraying Romeo and encouraging Juliet to marry Paris

d) giving the message to Juliet's mother instead of Juliet herself

a) let Romeo speak about Juliet's beauty

b) convince Romeo to send a letter to the Capulet house

c) have Romeo match wits with him

d) prove to Benvolio that Romeo is intelligent

a) Romeo is causing trouble by wooing Juliet

b) Romeo is so changeable in love

c) Juliet is too young to marry

d) Romeo has been unfaithful to Rosaline

a) provide relief from the tragedy

b) display Shakespeare's wit

c) suggest that love has a funny side

d) indicate that Juliet's servants are foolish

a) he is angry because of jokes Mercutio makes about him

b) Juliet will marry him with the permission of Lord Capulet

c) he has a feud to settle with Lord Montague's son, Romeo

d) he will spy for the Montague family if he can marry Rosaline

a) They plan to have Friar Laurence marry them

b) The nurse will lead them out of Verona, away from the Montague and Capulet clans

c) They plan to marry, with their parents' permission, when Juliet turns sixteen

d) The Montagues will hide Juliet in their home after the couple has married

a) she wants to marry him

b) she is sure his love is true

c) she is not a flirt

d) he has overheard her thinking aloud about her love for him

a) Montague is an unimportant name in Verona

b) Romeo should take her last name when they marry

c) Romeo's name is an accident of birth, not an essential part of him

d) It is wrong to fall in love with a Montague

a) Tybalt

b) Romeo

c) Friar Laurence

d) Nurse

a) Mercutio

b) Benvolio

c) Romeo

d) Juliet

a) He has seen Romeo in and out of love before and hopes Romeo is not acting too hastily.

b) It is his duty as a Friar to advise caution and moderation in all things

c) He assumes there will be trouble between the families because of the marriage and doesn't want Romeo to forget that

d) He is doubtful as to whether Juliet will show up and wants to prepare Romeo for possible disappointment

a) poetry with no structure and no rhyme

b) a type of long poem often used for plays

c) the only type of poetry Shakespeare used throughout his plays

d) unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter

a) directs his or her thoughts to other characters onstage

b) expresses private thoughts to the audience

c) speaks from behind a curtain to somewhere offstage

d) describes an event that is related to, but not part of, the dialogue in the play