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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Act 1, Scene 3, Lady Capulet first asks the nurse to do what?
(a) Leave the room, then asks her to stay.
(b) Stay, then asks her to leave.
(c) Call Juliet, then changes her mind.
(d) Summon Capulet, then changes her mind.

2. In Act 2, Scene 3, the friar believes Romeo never went to bed because ___________.
(a) He was with Rosaline.
(b) He was hiding from his father.
(c) He was fighting with Tybalt.
(d) He was carousing drunkenly with his friends.

3. In Act 2, Scene 5, the nurse shares Romeo's plan to do what?
(a) Climb into Juliet's room using a rope.
(b) Marry Rosaline.
(c) Bribe the guards to let him in.
(d) Answer Tybalt's challenge.

4. When will Paris will get his first chance to woo Juliet?
(a) At the Prince's party that evening.
(b) At Capulet's party that evening.
(c) At his wedding to Juliet.
(d) At Friar Lawrence's cell.

5. Mercutio attempts to "conjure" Romeo by in Act 2, Scene 1 by doing what?
(a) Teasing him about Juliet.
(b) Listing Rosaline's virtues.
(c) Threatening to reveal his presence to Tybalt.
(d) Listing Juliet's virtues.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 186-196, Romeo compares love to all of the following EXCEPT what?

2. In Act 1, Scene 2, Romeo compares his thwarted love for Rosaline to ______________.

3. Romeo arranges to send a man to the nurse with _______________.

4. What does Juliet discover about Romeo through the nurse at the end of Act 1?

5. What irony faces Capulet's servant in Act 1, Scene 2?

(see the answer key)

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