Romeo and Juliet Quiz 5 Key

Choose the BEST answer for each of the following questions.

Theme Matching On the line preceding the quotation, write the letter of the theme that it illustrates. Each theme will be used only once.

A. The value of rationality in solving problems B. The value of friendship C. The power of love D. The individual vs. society E. The inevitability of fate

B 1. “Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.”

E 2. “O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle. / If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him / That is renowned for faith?”

A 3. “Although I joy in thee, / I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, / Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be / Ere one can say ‘It lightens.’”

D 4. “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, / Or never after look me in the face.”

C 5. “But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.”