Vocabulary and degrees of comparison??????????HELP PLEASE?

1. Act IV is mainly about (1 point)

Capulet's plans for Juliet's wedding.

Capulet's plans for Juliet's funeral.

Juliet's plan to avoid marrying Paris.

Paris's concern that Juliet does not love him.

2. When Juliet asks Friar Lawrence to help her prevent the marriage to Paris, he offers her "a kind of hope, / Which craves as desperate an execution / As that is desperate which we would prevent. / . . . A thing like death to chide away this shame . . ." What does his promised remedy hint at? (1 point)

Juliet's death

Juliet's shame

Paris's murder

Romeo's return

3. Two days before her wedding to Paris, Juliet tells Friar Lawrence all the things she would rather do than marry Paris. Which lines from that monologue predict the outcome of the play? (1 point)

"O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris. / From off the battlements of any tower . . ."

". . . Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk / Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears . . ."

". . . Or hide me nightly in a charnel house, / O'er covered quite with dead men's rattling bones . . ."

". . . Or bid me go into a new-made grave / And hide me with a dead man in his shroud . . ."

4. Which word BEST describes Friar Lawrence's role in dealing with Juliet? (1 point)

Judge

Advocate

Enemy

Ally

5. In Scene iii, before she takes the potion and after her mother and the nurse have left, Juliet says, "I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins / That almost freezes up the heat of life." What might this remark lead one to predict? (1 point)

Juliet and the nurse have not culled sufficient necessities.

Juliet is already ill.

Something will go wrong with the plan of feigning death.

Juliet fears her mother will learn of her plan.

6. Which of the following quotations from Juliet's speeches in Act IV is an example of dramatic irony? (1 point)

"Nurse, will you go with me into my closet / To help me sort such needful ornaments / As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?"



"How if, when I am laid into the tomb, / I wake before the time that Romeo / Come to redeem me?"

"O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, / Environèd with all these hideous fears, / And madly play with my forefathers' joints . . ."

"God joined my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands . . ."

7. After the nurse discovers Juliet in bed on the day of the wedding, Capulet delivers a speech that ends with these lines: "Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field." What makes this speech an example of dramatic irony? (1 point)

Juliet is actually sleeping.

Juliet has been dead for hours.

Capulet causes Juliet's death.

Juliet will die sooner than Capulet knows.

8. Which of the following sentences uses the superlative degree of comparison? (1 point)

Juliet believes faking her death is a good solution.

Capulet thinks that the marriage between Juliet and Paris is the best choice.

Romeo eagerly awaits word from Verona.

Juliet seemed more upset by Romeo's banishment than by Tybalt's death.

9. The word most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to loathsome _________________. (1 point)

energetic

offensive

hollow

agreeable



10. Choose the item that correctly completes the following sentence.

Of all the Montagues, Romeo appears to be the ______.



(1 point)

more open-minded.

most open-minded.

open-mindeder.

open-mindedest

Vocabulary and degrees of comparison??????????HELP PLEASE?
1. Act IV is mainly about (1 point)

(0 pts) Capulet's plans for Juliet's wedding.

(0 pts) Capulet's plans for Juliet's funeral.

(1 pt) Juliet's plan to avoid marrying Paris.

(0 pts) Paris's concern that Juliet does not love him.

1 /1 point

2. When Juliet asks Friar Lawrence to help her prevent the marriage to Paris, he offers her "a kind of hope, / Which craves as desperate an execution / As that is desperate which we would prevent. / . . . A thing like death to chide away this shame . . ." What does his promised remedy hint at? (1 point)

(1 pt) Juliet's death

(0 pts) Juliet's shame

(0 pts) Paris's murder

(0 pts) Romeo's return

1 /1 point

3. Two days before her wedding to Paris, Juliet tells Friar Lawrence all the things she would rather do than marry Paris. Which lines from that monologue predict the outcome of the play? (1 point)

(0 pts) "O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris. / From off the battlements of any tower . . ."

(0 pts) ". . . Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk / Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears . . ."

(0 pts) ". . . Or hide me nightly in a charnel house, / O'er covered quite with dead men's rattling bones . . ."

(1 pt) ". . . Or bid me go into a new-made grave / And hide me with a dead man in his shroud . . ."

1 /1 point

4. Which word BEST describes Friar Lawrence's role in dealing with Juliet? (1 point)

(0 pts) Judge

(0 pts) Advocate

(0 pts) Enemy

(1 pt) Ally

1 /1 point

5. In Scene iii, before she takes the potion and after her mother and the nurse have left, Juliet says, "I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins / That almost freezes up the heat of life." What might this remark lead one to predict? (1 point)

(0 pts) Juliet and the nurse have not culled sufficient necessities.

(0 pts) Juliet is already ill.

(1 pt) Something will go wrong with the plan of feigning death.

(0 pts) Juliet fears her mother will learn of her plan.

1 /1 point

6. Which of the following quotations from Juliet's speeches in Act IV is an example of dramatic irony? (1 point)

(1 pt) "Nurse, will you go with me into my closet / To help me sort such needful ornaments / As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?"



(0 pts) "How if, when I am laid into the tomb, / I wake before the time that Romeo / Come to redeem me?"

(0 pts) "O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, / Environèd with all these hideous fears, / And madly play with my forefathers' joints . . ."

(0 pts) "God joined my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands . . ."

1 /1 point

7. After the nurse discovers Juliet in bed on the day of the wedding, Capulet delivers a speech that ends with these lines: "Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field." What makes this speech an example of dramatic irony? (1 point)

(1 pt) Juliet is actually sleeping.

(0 pts) Juliet has been dead for hours.

(0 pts) Capulet causes Juliet's death.

(0 pts) Juliet will die sooner than Capulet knows.

1 /1 point

8. Which of the following sentences uses the superlative degree of comparison? (1 point)

(0 pts) Juliet believes faking her death is a good solution.

(1 pt) Capulet thinks that the marriage between Juliet and Paris is the best choice.

(0 pts) Romeo eagerly awaits word from Verona.

(0 pts) Juliet seemed more upset by Romeo's banishment than by Tybalt's death.

1 /1 point

9. The word most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to loathsome _________________. (1 point)

(0 pts) energetic

(0 pts) offensive

(0 pts) hollow

(1 pt) agreeable

1 /1 point



10. Choose the item that correctly completes the following sentence.

Of all the Montagues, Romeo appears to be the ______.



(1 point)

(0 pts) more open-minded.

(1 pt) most open-minded.

(0 pts) open-mindeder.

(0 pts) open-mindedest

1 /1 point



The final score is 10/10 (100%).