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Romeo & Juliet: Exam Study Guide
**Make sure to study all of the following in order to be prepared for your Romeo & Juliet test.
Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare Background Notes from Romeo & Juliet Packet & PowerPoint
Poetry Basics Information from Romeo & Juliet Packet, such as the definition of sonnet &
iambic pentameter, as well as how each of those is used by Shakespeare
Dramatic terms, Devices, & Figurative Language from Romeo & Juliet Packet (pp. 6-7), as
well as examples of these from the play: soliloquy, pun, aside, dramatic irony,
personification, implied metaphor, simile, oxymoron, paradox, foil
Quotes: Be able to identify quotations from the play…speaker and the meaning of what is being said
Characters: Be familiar with the following characters. You will need to be able to identify
descriptions and actions of these characters, as well as quotations from them.
Romeo
Juliet
Nurse
Lady Capulet
Lord Capulet
Mercutio
Benvolio
Tybalt
Paris
Friar Laurence
Prince Escalus
Lady Montague
Lord Montague
*Also be familiar with the setting, themes, and the main events of the play.
Study the Packet!!!
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ROMEO AND JULIET Acts I-V Questions: Complete the following sentences.
ACT I
1.
The Prince decrees that…____________________________________________________
2.
Count Paris asks Capulet…____________________________________________________
3.
At the feast, Tybalt…_______________________________________________________
4.
Romeo meets…____________________________________________________________
ACT II
5.
6.
Romeo and Juliet exchange…__________________________________________________
Friar Laurence secretly…_____________________________________________________
ACT III
7.
8.
In a street fight, Tybalt…_____________________________________________________
Romeo kills… _____________________________________________________________
9.
As punishment, the Prince… ___________________________________________________
10.
Capulet and Paris plan…______________________________________________________
11.
Romeo comforts… __________________________________________________________
12.
The Capulets inform Juliet of… _______________________________________________
ACT IV
13.
Friar Laurence devises…____________________________________________________
14.
The Capulets bury…________________________________________________________
ACT V
15.
Balthasar informs…________________________________________________________
16.
Romeo kills…_____________________________________________________________
17.
Then Romeo kills…_________________________________________________________
18.
Juliet awakens, then… ______________________________________________________
19.
Friar Laurence reveals…_____________________________________________________
20.
Shared sorrow reconciles… __________________________________________________
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Across
2. The sells Romeo the poison.
5.
, Romeo's cousin, can be described as a peacemaker.
7. ________ says that "young men love with their eyes, then
not truly with their hearts!" and advises Romeo and Juliet to
love in moderation.
10. Romeo is banished to
_.
11. A
by any other word would smell as sweet.
12. Romeo says that he is fortune's ______.
13. Romeo kills ______in the tomb.
15. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with _____.
16. Romeo and Juliet are _______-________ lovers.
19. Shakespeare wrote during the ______ period.
20. Mercutio gives a speech about how _____ _____ controls
our dreams and messes with our heads.
22. & 23. When Romeo & Juliet meet, Romeo compares
Juliet to a _23_ and himself to a _22_.
Down
1. Because Romeo makes decisions without thinking, he can best
be described as ______.
3. The hot-headed _ is called the "Prince of Cats."
4. Act two contains the famous ________ scene.
6. Two households, both alike in dignity in fair ____ where we
lay our scene.
8. & 9. It was the __8__, morning’s herald, not the __9__. Look
my love, how jealous daylight pierces through the clouds, there
in the east. The stars have disappeared, and a pleasant day
stands poised on the misty mountain tops. I must be gone and
live or stay and die.
10. ____, who is usually joking around, exclaims "A plague on
both your houses” as he dies.
12. Juliet is not yet _____ years old.
14. A ______ is when a character is alone on stage giving a
speech that reveals his or her thoughts.
.
17. The_________of the play is in act three when Tybalt dies.
18. _____ is the emotional release of the audience as a result of
the tragedy.
21. ______ is Romeo's servant.
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Romeo & Juliet Review Questions
1.
For what theater did Shakespeare write?
2.
What types of people were allowed to act in plays during the Renaissance?
3.
How many acts are in a Shakespearean play?
4.
What happens in each act [hint: plot diagram]?
5.
What does it mean when Romeo & Juliet are called “star-crossed" lovers?
6.
What happens in the first scene?
7.
Why is Romeo sad at the beginning of the play?
8.
When Juliet is told for the first time (before she meets Romeo) that her parents would like her to marry Paris,
how does she react?
9.
Mercutio gives a long speech at the end of act one. What is his speech about?
10. What feeling does Romeo have on the way to the party?
11. What news shocks and saddens Romeo and Juliet as they learn each other’s identities?
12. Why is the Friar hesitant to marry Romeo and Juliet at first?
13. Why does he end up agreeing to marry them?
14. Explain why Juliet is more cautious than Romeo in the balcony scene.
15. What advice does the Friar give to Romeo and Juliet before they get married?
16. Why does Tybalt challenge Romeo to a duel?
17. What is Tybalt like as a character?
18. Why does Romeo end up fighting Tybalt?
19. Why does Juliet agree to marry Paris?
20. Give examples of how Romeo and Juliet foreshadow their own deaths.
21. What happens between the families in the end?
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