ENGLISH QUIZ

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the answer that suits the question in the best way. For the letters, make
sure to write in UPPERCASE form. Write this all down on a ½ crosswise piece of paper.

1. In the excerpt you have previously read from the book, what weapon did Tybalt request from
the servant?
(A) His claymore
(B) His rapier
(C) His scimitar
(D) His saber

For item number two:

TYBALT: Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,
A villain that is hither come in spite,
To scorn at our solemnity this night.

2. Who is this “villain” that Tybalt speaks of?

(A) Romeo
(B) Mercutio
(C) Benvolio
(D) Tiberio

For item number three:

ROMEO: Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.

3. What does Romeo seek from Juliet?

(A) His guilt
(B) Her hand in marriage
(C) A kiss
(D) A loving embrace

4. Who was the woman that broke Romeo’s heart?

(A) Rosaline
(B) Rosalind
(C) Ophelia
(D) Beatrice

For item number five:

ROMEO: Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt.

5. What does Romeo mean by these words?

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6. Who was County Paris?
(A) The Crown Prince of Verona who wanted to wed Juliet to his cousin
(B) Romeo’s relative who fell in love with Juliet
(C) Juliet’s first love who had perished peacefully a few years back
(D) The man Juliet was supposed to marry

7. Who is Romeo’s cousin?

(A) Mercutio
(B) Benvolio
(C) Potpan
(D) Tybalt

8. Who is Friar Lawrence?

(A) He is the priest that wed Romeo and Juliet.
(B) He is the priest that raised Romeo.
(C) He is the priest that killed Juliet.
(D) He is the priest that killed Romeo.

9. Where did the events of Romeo and Juliet happen?

(A) Florence
(B) Rome
(C) Pisa
(D) Verona

For item number ten:

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
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From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
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The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

10. Complete the prologue read to you last week.

(A) -In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

-The which if you with patient ears attend,
-Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
(B) -Two households, both alike in dignity,
-And the continuance of their parents' rage,
The which if you with patient ears attend,

(C) -From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

-Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
-Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

(D) -Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

-Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
-The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love

For item number eleven:

From ACT V, Scene 3
ROMEO: (kisses JULIET, takes out the poison)
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide.

11. Which one of the five senses is being exhibited here? (Referring to the poison)
(A) Sight
(B) Smell
(C) Taste
(D) Hearing

For item number twelve:

From ACT II, Scene 2
ROMEO: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes.
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars.

12. Which one of the five senses is being exhibited here?

(A) Touch
(B) Sight
(C) Smell
(D) Hearing

13. “Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife,” is a line from the prologue. It uses
what sort of literary device?
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Rhyme scheme
(D) Foreshadowing
14. When Juliet found out that Romeo had killed her cousin, she exclaimed, “A damnèd
saint, an honorable villain!”
This statement is an example of what?
(A) Rhyme scheme
(B) Oxymoron
(C) Repitition
(D) Foreshadowing

15. “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night,”
was what Romeo said when he first fell in love with Juliet. It is a manifestation of what?
(A) Rhyme scheme
(B) Simile
(C) Metaphor
(D) Oxymoron