1.
which of the following best states a theme of romeo and juliet?
• love paves the way for peace.
• the power of nature overcomes the will of man.
• love is a gentle force that brings families together.
• actions in haste can bring about destruction.
2.
in act iv, scene 1 of romeo and juliet, paris tells friar lawrence, "immoderately she weeps for tybalt's death, / and therefore have i little talked of love." what makes paris's comment an example of dramatic irony?

• juliet is saddened by the death of tybalt.
• juliet is actually weeping over romeo's banishment.
• juliet is pretending to cry in order to avoid seeing paris.
• juliet was in love with her cousin tybalt.
3.
in romeo and juliet, which of the following illustrates shakespeare's use of comic relief?

• a servant explains to capulet that cooks should lick their own fingers.
• capulet believes that juliet is dead when she is really only sleeping.
• "honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up; for well you know this is a pitiful case."
• a nurse claims to be too tired to give juliet romeo's message.
4.
read the following line from romeo's monologue in act ii, scene 2 of romeo and juliet:
but soft! what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east, and juliet is the sun!

what is romeo saying in this passage?
• romeo has broken the window even though he threw a rock softly.
• juliet is standing in the east window.
• juliet's beauty shines like the sun.
• romeo has never been in love before.
5.
read the following line from act iv, scene 5 of romeo and juliet, when capulet speaks of his daughter’s apparent death:
death lies on her like an untimely frost
upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

how does shakespeare use a simile to emphasize the tragedy of the apparent death?
• by comparing juliet to a flower, capulet emphasizes that she is too young to die.
• by comparing juliet to a flower, capulet emphasizes that she is too beautiful to die.
• by comparing juliet to a flower with frost on it, capulet emphasizes that juliet’s body is cold.
• by comparing juliet to a flower with frost on it, capulet emphasizes that he has lost the best daughter in the land.