High School: 9th and 10th Grade - Literature - Romeo And Juliet - Extract 2 Solution

Q.1.

What is the immediate context for this passage?

Q.2.

What immediately follows this passage?

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Nurse finds Juliet dead on the morning of her wedding
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Paris and Romeo fight
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Capulet, his wife, Nurse and the servants stay up late to prepare the wedding feast
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Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion to feign death

Q.3.

Which of the following is true?

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The dialog between Paris and Juliet resembles a verbal duel
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The dialog between Paris and Juliet shows that they are in complete agreement
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The dialog between Paris and Juliet shows that neither understands the other
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The dialog between Paris and Juliet shows that Paris understands Juliet better than she understands him

Q.4.

Look again at the lines Paris and Juliet speak to one another. What effect does repetition have in these lines?

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The repetition does not have any effect other than to sound poetic
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Paris's eagerness to marry makes him slow with words, so that he must repeat Juliet's phrases
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Juliet's sorrow makes her slow with words, so that she must repeat Paris's phrases
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Juliet counteracts Paris's intentions by borrowing and then changing the meaning of his words

Q.5.

How do Juliet and Paris use the word "confession" in this passage?

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Formally, to refer to the confession of sins to a priest
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Informally, to refer to confessing a crime to anyone
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Both to refer to confessing sins to a priest and to admit to something otherwise secret
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Both to refer to confessing sins to a priest and to admit to having committed a crime

Q.6.

"Are you at leisure, holy father, now." - What is the function of this line?

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Juliet is ready to give up on her plans, even though she must submit to her parents' will
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Juliet brings the conversation with Paris to a close
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Juliet uses this line to continue with the verbal parrying
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All of the above

Q.7.

In threatening to kill herself, Juliet explains that she will slay her own hand. Why?

Q.8.

Which line or lines tell the audience that Juliet fears she might fall in love with Paris?

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"I will confess to you that I love him"
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"It may be so, for it is not mine own"
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"And with this knife I’ll help it presently. / God joined my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands"
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"Or my true heart with treacherous revolt / Turn to another"

Q.9.

What is Juliet's "resolution"?

Q.10.

What does Paris want Juliet to do?