Romeo and Juliet, ACT III - Scene V quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. What bird does Juliet claim she hears at the beginning of Act III, Scene V?

   • Correct answer: The nightingale
   • The crowing cock
   • The cuckoo
   • The lark

   Juliet insists the song is from a nightingale, a bird of the night, because she wants Romeo to stay longer.

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   Question 2. Where must Romeo flee to avoid execution?

   • Rome
   • Correct answer: Mantua
   • Milan
   • Florence

   Romeo has been banished to Mantua by Prince Escalus for killing Tybalt.

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   Question 3. What does Lady Capulet announce to Juliet after Romeo's departure?

   • That Count Paris has withdrawn his offer
   • That Tybalt's murderer has been captured
   • That Romeo has been pardoned by the Prince
   • Correct answer: That Juliet will marry Count Paris on Thursday

   Lady Capulet tells Juliet that Lord Capulet has arranged her marriage to Paris at Saint Peter's Church on Thursday.

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   Question 4. What literary device is the opening lark-nightingale exchange an example of?

   • An epithalamium
   • A sonnet
   • Correct answer: An aubade
   • A soliloquy

   An aubade is a traditional dawn song in which lovers debate whether it is time to part, a convention Shakespeare draws on here.

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   Question 5. How does Juliet disguise her feelings about Romeo when speaking to her mother?

   • She stays silent and lets the Nurse answer her mother for her
   • She openly defends Romeo and begs her mother to forgive him
   • She agrees to marry Paris so her mother will stop asking questions
   • Correct answer: She uses double meanings that sound like hatred but express love

   Juliet uses equivocation throughout, such as "Indeed I never shall be satisfied / With Romeo till I behold him—dead— / Is my poor heart," which her mother misreads as hatred.

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   Question 6. What extended metaphor does Lord Capulet use to describe Juliet's weeping?

   • A garden withering in drought
   • A candle guttering in the wind
   • Correct answer: A ship tossed in a storm at sea
   • A bird beating its wings in a cage

   Capulet compares Juliet to a bark (ship) in a salt flood, with her eyes as the sea, her body as the vessel, and her sighs as the wind.

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   Question 7. What does the Nurse advise Juliet to do about the marriage to Paris?

   • Run away with Romeo to Mantua
   • Correct answer: Forget Romeo and marry Paris
   • Appeal to Prince Escalus for help
   • Confess the secret marriage to Lord Capulet

   The Nurse pragmatically advises Juliet to marry Paris, calling him "a lovely gentleman" and saying "Romeo's a dishclout to him."

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   Question 8. Where does Juliet say she is going at the end of the scene?

   • Correct answer: To Friar Laurence's cell
   • To the Capulet family tomb
   • To Romeo in Mantua
   • To Prince Escalus's court

   Juliet tells the Nurse she is going to Friar Laurence's cell to make confession, though her real purpose is to seek his help.

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   Question 9. What vision does Juliet have as Romeo descends the balcony?

   • She sees him captured by the Prince's watchmen
   • Correct answer: She sees him as one dead in the bottom of a tomb
   • She sees him on horseback on the road to Mantua
   • She sees him lying wounded in the street

   This vision directly foreshadows Romeo's death in the Capulet vault in Act V.

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    Question 10. Which of these events actually happened in this chapter?

    • Lord Capulet physically strikes Juliet during their argument.

      Didn't happen

      Although Capulet says "My fingers itch" (implying he wants to hit her) and is verbally abusive, he does not actually strike Juliet in the scene.

    • Lady Capulet tells Juliet she plans to have Romeo poisoned in Mantua.

      Happened

      Lady Capulet says she will send someone to Mantua to give Romeo "such an unaccustom'd dram / That he shall soon keep Tybalt company," meaning she intends to have him poisoned.

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    Question 11. What does the word "runagate" mean as Lady Capulet uses it to describe Romeo?

    • Correct answer: A fugitive or runaway
    • A traitor to the crown
    • A common thief
    • A nobleman

    "Runagate" is an archaic term meaning a fugitive or runaway, used contemptuously by Lady Capulet to describe the banished Romeo.

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    Question 12. When Capulet calls Juliet a "mammet," what does he mean?

    • A disobedient servant
    • A spoiled princess
    • A clever girl
    • Correct answer: A puppet or doll

    "Mammet" means a puppet or doll, and Capulet uses it to belittle Juliet as a whining, childish creature undeserving of his efforts.

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    Question 13. What does Juliet mean when she says "Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain"?

    • She and the Nurse will be bound together by a vow
    • She and the Nurse will be closer than ever before
    • Correct answer: She and the Nurse will no longer share confidences
    • She and the Nurse will think exactly alike

    "Twain" means two or divided. Juliet declares that the Nurse will no longer be privy to her innermost thoughts, permanently severing their bond of trust.

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