Romeo  and  Juliet    

Year  9  –  End  of  Key  Stage  3  English  Assessment  

Revision  Booklet  
Modern  Drama  and  Creative  Writing  
 
 

 
Name:  ___________________  
Tutor  Group:  _____________  
Class  Teacher:  ____________  
 
The  Exam  
• Part  of  English  Literature  Paper  1,  
combined  with  Animal  Farm.  
• 55  minutes  spent  on  Romeo  and  Juliet  
section.    
• 30  minutes  spent  on  Part  A  
• 25  minutes  spent  on  Part  B  
 

  Part  A  
  Question  on  a  character.  
 
 Exploring  how  they  are  presented  in  
  a  30  line  extract.    

 You  need  to  provide  a  minimum  of  4  

quotations  from  the  extract.  
  Part  B  
You  must  identify  
 
techniques/terminology.   Question  on  a  theme.  
 
You  must  discuss  the  effect  on  the   Exploring  how  the  theme  is  
  audience.   presented  in  the  REST  of  the  play.  

  An  essay  with  3  clear  PQEs.  

  An  introduction  and  a  conclusion.  
  You  MUST  discuss  context  (The  
  Elizabethan  era).    

   

 
 

 
Part  A  Mark  Scheme  
 

 
In  our  own  words:  
 
• You  MUST  comment  on  LANGUAGE,  
 
FORM  AND  STRUCTURE.  
 
• You  MUST  discuss  the  effect  on  the  
 
audience.  
  • You  MUST  refer  to    

  terminology/techniques  in  your  answer.  

 
To  get  Level  3...  
 

  You  must  discuss  

You  must  have  at  LEAST  
 
language  and  structure    
4  quotations  for  a  range.  
 

 
You  must  mention  and  
 
label  techniques.  
 

 
Practice  Paragraph  
 
In  Juliet’s  speech  she  uses  rhetorical  questions  to  show  she  is  
questioning  the  situation  and  herself.  This  is  shown  when  she  
says  “What’s  here?  a  cup  clos’d  in  my  true  love’s  hand?”  She  
also  uses  the  adjective  “true  love”  to  describe  Romeo,  
showing  the  real  feeling  she  has  for  Romeo.    
 
  To  get  Level  4...  
 

You  
  must  discuss  
language,  
  structure  AND   You  must  have  between  
form.   5-­‐10  quotations  which  
 
you  are  discussing  
 
together.  Try  to  embed  
  You  must  mention  and   them.  
  label  a  range  of  
techniques  that  support    
 
your  ideas.  
 

Practice  Paragraph  
Shakespeare  presents  Juliet  as  in  control  and  powerful.  This  is  shown  when  she  
says:  “O  happy  dagger.”  The  use  of  the  oxymoron  “happy  dagger”  shows  the  
complexity  of  feeling  here,  as  she  is  happy  to  die,  as  it  allows  her  to  be  with  her  
“true  love”.  The  enjambment  which  follows  this  line  continuing  to  “this  is  thy  
sheath”  allows  the  audience  to  see  the  final  journey  Juliet  is  taking  to  become  
“happy”  and  at  one  with  her  love;  it  is  their  final  “pilgrimage”.    
 
 
To  get  Level  5...  
 

 
You  must  discuss   You  must  have  between  
 
language,  structure  AND   7-­‐10  quotations  which  
 
form   cohesively   are  embedded.  
(together).  
  It  is  the  way  
 
they  
  work  together.  
You  must  mention  and  
 
label  SOPHISTICATED  
  techniques,  and  
  integrate  them  
  effortlessly.  
 

  Practice  Paragraph  
Shakespeare  presents  Juliet  as  powerful  and  in  control.  As  she  is  “taking  Romeo’s  dagger”  
she  exclaims  “O  happy  dagger”.  The  oxymoronic  phrase  shows  that  she  is  content  in  her  
death,  as  it  will  unite  her  with  her  “true  love”.  The  phallic  symbol  of  the  “dagger”  shows  
how  powerful  and  in  control  she  is,  as  she  is  willing  to  take  the  Elizabethan  noblest  act  of  
killing  in  order  to  reconsummate  with  Romeo.  This  is  further  emphasised  through  the  
enjambment  in  this  line,  as  it  symbolises,  to  the  audience,  that  this  is  Juliet’s  final  journey  or  
‘pilgrimage’  to  greet  Romeo,  creating  a  cathartic  feeling  for  the  audience.        

 
  Key  Terminology  
 

Language   Structure   Form  

Metaphor   Line  length   Play  text  

Simile   Enjambment  (line  runs   Tragedy  

on)  
Imagery  (repeated   Caesura  (breaks  the   Sonnet  Form  
images)   line)  
Rhetorical  questions   Rhyming  Couplets   Blank  Verse  (in  a  verse  
but  doesn’t  rhyme)  
Adjectives  (describing   Sharing  rhyming   Prose    
words)   couplets  
Verbs  (doing  words)   Stichomythia  (  two   Soliloquy  
characters  speak  
alternate  lines  of  
verse;  Paris  and  Juliet)  
Phallic  Symbol  (like  a   Building  tension    
penis)  
Bawdy  language  (rude   Stage  directions    
language)  
Sexual  innuendo   Punctuation      

Oxymoron      

Juxtaposition      

 
  Part  B  Mark  Scheme  
 

  In  our  own  
  words:  
  • You  must  show  
your  own  
 
personal  view  of  
  how  the  theme  
is  shown  (In  my  
   
opinion...)  
  • You  must  have  
an  essay  style  
 
(into,  
  conclusion,  
connectives)  
 
• You  must  use  
  quotations/  
examples  from  
 
the  play.  
  • You  must  refer  
to  context  and  
 
understand  how  
  it  links  to  the  
text.    
 
 
 

   

 
 
Key  Quotations  
 

Romeo:
§ “makes himself an artificial night”

§ “O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything of nothing first

create!”

§ “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boistrous, and it pricks like
thorn!”

§ “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!”

§ “Did my heart love til now? Forswear it sight! For I never saw true beauty til this
night.”

§ “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”

§ “O I am fortune’s fool!” “I defy you stars!”

§ “A grave? O no, a lantern, slaughter’d youth.”

§ “Here will I set up my everlasting rest,/ And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.”

§ “Thus with a kiss I die.”

Juliet:
• Marriage: “It is an honour I dream not of”.. “I’ll look to like is
looking liking move.”

• “Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much...” (Meeting)

• “My only love sprung from my only hate!

• “O swear not by the moon! Th’inconstant moon”

• “It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden, too like the lightning.”

• “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”

• “Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars”

• “Delay this marriage for a month, a week”

• “O happy dagger!”
Mercutio
• “If love be rough with you, be rough with love”
• “O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you”
• “This is the hag”
• “O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified.”
• “O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!”
• “A plague on both your houses! They have made worm’s meat of me”  
• “Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man”

The Nurse
• “Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nurs’d”

• “A man, young lady! Such a man as all the world – Why, he’s a man of
wax”

• “if ye should lead her in a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of
behaviour”

• “Hie you to church, I must another way, to fetch a ladder!”

• “O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!”

Tybalt:
• “Prince of cats”

• “Peace? I hate the word! As I hate hell, all Montagues and thee”

• “I’ll not endure him”

• “You are a saucy boy”

• “Thou art a villain”

• “Thou wretched boy”

Benvolio:  
• “Part fools! Put up your swords, you know not what you do!”

• “No, coz, I rather weep!”

• “Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?”

• “I do but keep the peace”

• “O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead.”

Friar Lawrence:  
• “Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight... Wast thou with
Rosaline?”

• “For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your

households’ rancour to pure love.”

• “These violent delights have violent ends.”

• “Therefore love moderately, long love doth so”

• “Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her”

• “Take this via... No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.”

• “Come go, good Juliet, I dare no longer stay”

Paris:  
• (Nurse)“such a man! a man of wax”

• “But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?”

• “Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander’d it.”

• “Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew!”

Capulet:
• “Woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart.”

• “He shall be endur’d! Am I the master here, or you?”  

• “Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage!”

• “Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!”

• “Speak not, reply not, do not answer me! My fingers itch.”

 
  Key  Context  –  Elizabethan  Era  
 

 
• Astrology  and  believe  in  stars  and  fate  
• Catholic,  strongly  religious  community.    
• Women  were  given  to  their  husbands,  by  their  fathers,  with  a  dowry  
(money)  
• It  was  normal  for  women  to  be  married  and  having  children  by  14  
• Petrarchan  lovers  (are  melodramatic,  self-­‐consciously  suffering  and  has  
given  himself  up  to  the  power  of  his  mistress)  
• Suicide  was  considered  a  sin  
• However,  stabbing  oneself  was  the  most  noble  suicide  
• Masculinity  was  seen  as  a  necessary  trait  for  a  man,  being  strong  and  
violent  and  noble  
• However,  men  who  expressed  their  undying  love  were  effeminate,  
which  was  also  a  positive  quality.  
• Women  were  supposed  to  be  meek  and  obedient.    
• The  Globe  Theatre;  theatre  outdoors.  In  the  stalls  audience  would  often  
be  drunk  men  who  are  all  looking  to  have  a  good  time  and  be  
entertained  by  bawdy  humour  (see  Act  1  Scene  1).  
 
 
 

§ Love  
  § Death  
§ Hate        
  • Revenge  
• Family  
Key  Themes   • Fate/Destiny  
• Conflict  
• Betrayal  
• Disobedience  
• Marriage  
• Status  
Practice  Exam  Questions  
 

Exam  Paper  1  
 
Romeo  and  Juliet    –  from  Act  3  Scene  1,  lines  74  to  104.  
 In  this  extract,  Mercutio  and  Tybalt  are  in  a  brawl.  
 
Mercutio  
Good  King  of  Cats,  nothing  but  one  of  your  nine  lives;  that  I  mean  to  make  bold  
withal,  and  as  you  shall  use  me  hereafter,  dry-­‐beat  the  rest  of  the  eight.  Will  
you  pluck  your  sword  out  of  his  pilcher  by  the  ears?  Make  haste,  lest  mine  be  
about  your  ears  ere  it  be  out.  
Tybalt  
I  am  for  you.  
Romeo  
Gentle  Mercutio,  put  thy  rapier  up.  
Mercutio  
Come,  sir,  your  passado.  

They  fight.  

Romeo  
Draw,  Benvolio,  beat  down  their  weapons.  
Gentlemen,  for  shame,  forbear  this  outrage!  
Tybalt,  Mercutio,  the  Prince  expressly  hath  
Forbid  this  bandying  in  Verona  streets.  

Romeo  steps  between  them.  

Hold,  Tybalt!  Good  Mercutio!  

Tybalt  under  Romeo’s  arm  thrusts  Mercutio  in.  

Away  Tybalt  with  his  followers.  

Mercutio  
I  am  hurt.  
A  plague  a’  both  houses!  I  am  sped.  
Is  he  gone  and  hath  nothing?  
Benvolio  
What,  art  thou  hurt?  
Mercutio  
Ay,  ay,  a  scratch,  a  scratch,  marry,  ’tis  enough.  
Where  is  my  page?  Go,  villain,  fetch  a  surgeon.  

Exit  Page.  

Romeo  
Courage,  man,  the  hurt  cannot  be  much.  
Mercutio  
No,  ’tis  not  so  deep  as  a  well,  nor  so  wide  as  a  church-­‐door,  but  ’tis  enough,  
’twill  serve.  Ask  for  me  tomorrow,  and  you  shall  find  me  a  grave  man.  I  am  
pepper’d,  I  warrant,  for  this  world.  A  plague  a’  both  your  houses!  ’Zounds,  a  
dog,  a  rat,  a  mouse,  a  cat,  to  scratch  a  man  to  death!  A  braggart,  a  rogue,  a  
villain,  that  fights  by  the  book  of  arithmetic!  Why  the  dev’l  came  you  between  
us?  I  was  hurt  under  your  arm.  
Romeo  
I  thought  all  for  the  best.  
Mercutio  
Help  me  into  some  house,  Benvolio,  
Or  I  shall  faint.  A  plague  a’  both  your  houses!  
They  have  made  worms’  meat  of  me.  I  have  it,  
And  soundly  too.  Your  houses!  
 
1. A)  Explore  how  Shakespeare  presents  Mercutio  in  this  extract.  Refer  
closely  to  the  extract  in  your  answer.  (20)  
 
B  )In  this  extract,  there  is  conflict  between  the  characters.  Explain  the  
importance  of  conflict  elsewhere  in  the  play.  In  your  answer  you  must  
consider:  
 
• how  conflict  is  shown    
• the  reasons  for  the  conflict.  You  should  refer  to  the  context  of  the  play  in  
your  answer  (20)  
 
Exam  Paper  2  

Romeo  and  Juliet    –  from  Act  4  Scene  1,  lines  77  to  108.  
In  this  extract,  Juliet  has  come  to  Friar  Lawrence  to  make  a  plan.  
Juliet  
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’ercover’d  quite  with  dead  men’s  rattling  bones,  
With  reeky  shanks  and  yellow  chapless  skulls;  
Or  bid  me  go  into  a  new-­‐made  grave,  
And  hide  me  with  a  dead  man  in  his  shroud—  
Things  that,  to  hear  them  told,  have  made  me  tremble—  
And  I  will  do  it  without  fear  or  doubt,  
To  live  an  unstain’d  wife  to  my  sweet  love.  
Friar  Lawrence  
Hold  then.  Go  home,  be  merry,  give  consent  
To  marry  Paris.  We’n’sday  is  tomorrow;  
Tomorrow  night  look  that  thou  lie  alone,  
Let  not  the  nurse  lie  with  thee  in  thy  chamber.  
Take  thou  this  vial,  being  then  in  bed,  
And  this  distilling  liquor  drink  thou  off,  
When  presently  through  all  thy  veins  shall  run  
A  cold  and  drowsy  humor;  for  no  pulse  
Shall  keep  his  native  progress,  but  surcease;  
No  warmth,  no  breath  shall  testify  thou  livest;  
The  roses  in  thy  lips  and  cheeks  shall  fade  
To  wanny  ashes,  thy  eyes’  windows  fall,  
Like  death  when  he  shuts  up  the  day  of  life;  
Each  part,  depriv’d  of  supple  government,  
Shall,  stiff  and  stark  and  cold,  appear  like  death,  
And  in  this  borrowed  likeness  of  shrunk  death  
Thou  shalt  continue  two  and  forty  hours,  
And  then  awake  as  from  a  pleasant  sleep.  
Now  when  the  bridegroom  in  the  morning  comes  
To  rouse  thee  from  thy  bed,  there  art  thou  dead.  

 
 
1.  A)  Explore  how  Shakespeare  presents  Juliet  in  this  extract.  Refer  closely  to  
the  extract  in  your  answer.  (20)  
 

B  )I  Explain  the  importance  of  deceit  elsewhere  in  the  play.  In  your  answer,  you  
must  consider:  

•    where  deceit  is  shown    

•  how  deception  affects  those  involved.  You  must  refer  to  the  context  of  the  
play  in  your  answer.  (20)  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exam  Paper  3  
Romeo  and  Juliet    –  from  Act  3  Scene  5,  lines  126  to  157.  
In  this  extract,  Juliet  is  defying  Capulet’s  instructions  to  marry  Paris.  
 
Capulet  
When  the  sun  sets,  the  earth  doth  drizzle  dew,  
But  for  the  sunset  of  my  brother’s  son  
It  rains  downright.  
How  now,  a  conduit,  girl?  What,  still  in  tears?  
Evermore  show’ring?  In  one  little  body  
Thou  counterfeits  a  bark,  a  sea,  a  wind:  
For  still  thy  eyes,  which  I  may  call  the  sea,  
Do  ebb  and  flow  with  tears;  the  bark  thy  body  is,  
Sailing  in  this  salt  flood;  the  winds,  thy  sighs,  
Who,  raging  with  thy  tears,  and  they  with  them,  
Without  a  sudden  calm,  will  overset  
Thy  tempest-­‐tossed  body.  How  now,  wife?  
Have  you  delivered  to  her  our  decree?  
Lady  Capulet  
Ay,  sir,  but  she  will  none,  she  gives  you  thanks.  
I  would  the  fool  were  married  to  her  grave!  
Capulet  
Soft,  take  me  with  you,  take  me  with  you,  wife.  
How,  will  she  none?  Doth  she  not  give  us  thanks?  
Is  she  not  proud?  Doth  she  not  count  her  blest,  
Unworthy  as  she  is,  that  we  have  wrought  
So  worthy  a  gentleman  to  be  her  bride?  
Juliet  
Not  proud  you  have,  but  thankful  that  you  have.  
Proud  can  I  never  be  of  what  I  hate,  
But  thankful  even  for  hate  that  is  meant  love.  
Capulet  
How  how,  how  how,  chopp’d  logic!  What  is  this?  
“Proud,”  and  “I  thank  you,”  and  “I  thank  you  not,”  
And  yet  “not  proud,”  mistress  minion  you?  
Thank  me  no  thankings,  nor  proud  me  no  prouds,  
But  fettle  your  fine  joints  ’gainst  Thursday  next,  
To  go  with  Paris  to  Saint  Peter’s  Church,  
Or  I  will  drag  thee  on  a  hurdle  thither.  
Out,  you  green-­‐sickness  carrion!  Out,  you  baggage!  
You  tallow-­‐face!  
 

1.  A)  Explore  how  Shakespeare  presents  Lord  Capulet  in  this  extract.  Refer  
closely  to  the  extract  in  your  answer.  (20)  

B) Explain  the  importance  of  disobedience  elsewhere  in  the  play.  In  your  
answer,  you  must  consider:  

 •  when  characters  are  disobedient    

•  the  reasons  why  they  are  disobedient.  You  must  refer  to  the  context  of  
the  play  in  your  answer.  (20)  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Practice  Paper  4  
Romeo  and  Juliet    –  from  Act  2  Scene  3,  lines  65  to  94.  
In  this  extract,  Romeo  has  come  to  Friar  Lawrence  to  ask  the  Friar  to  marry  
him  and  Juliet.  
 
Friar  Lawrence  
Holy  Saint  Francis,  what  a  change  is  here!  
Is  Rosaline,  that  thou  didst  love  so  dear,  
So  soon  forsaken?  Young  men’s  love  then  lies  
Not  truly  in  their  hearts,  but  in  their  eyes.  
Jesu  Maria,  what  a  deal  of  brine  
Hath  wash’d  thy  sallow  cheeks  for  Rosaline!  
How  much  salt  water  thrown  away  in  waste,  
To  season  love,  that  of  it  doth  not  taste!  
The  sun  not  yet  thy  sighs  from  heaven  clears,  
Thy  old  groans  yet  ringing  in  mine  ancient  ears;  
Lo  here  upon  thy  cheek  the  stain  doth  sit  
Of  an  old  tear  that  is  not  wash’d  off  yet.  
If  e’er  thou  wast  thyself  and  these  woes  thine,  
Thou  and  these  woes  were  all  for  Rosaline.  
And  art  thou  chang’d?  Pronounce  this  sentence  then:  
Women  may  fall,  when  there’s  no  strength  in  men.  
 
Romeo  
Thou  chidst  me  oft  for  loving  Rosaline.  
Friar  Lawrence  
For  doting,  not  for  loving,  pupil  mine.  
Romeo  
And  badst  me  bury  love.  
Friar  Lawrence  
Not  in  a  grave,  
To  lay  one  in,  another  out  to  have.  
Romeo  
I  pray  thee  chide  me  not.  Her  I  love  now  
Doth  grace  for  grace  and  love  for  love  allow;  
The  other  did  not  so.  
Friar  Lawrence  
O,  she  knew  well  
Thy  love  did  read  by  rote  that  could  not  spell.  
But  come,  young  waverer,  come  go  with  me,  
In  one  respect  I’ll  thy  assistant  be;  
For  this  alliance  may  so  happy  prove  
To  turn  your  households’  rancor  to  pure  love.  
Romeo  
O,  let  us  hence,  I  stand  on  sudden  haste.  
Friar  Lawrence  
Wisely  and  slow,  they  stumble  that  run  fast.  
Exeunt.

1.  A)  Explore  how  Shakespeare  presents  Friar  Lawrence  in  this  extract.  Refer  
closely  to  the  extract  in  your  answer.  (20)  

B) In  this  extract  they  discuss  marriage.  Explore  how  is  marriage  is  
presented  elsewhere  in  the  play.  In  your  answer,  you  must  consider:  
 •  when  marriage  is  talked  about    
•  why  marriage  is  important.  You  must  refer  to  the  context  of  the  play  in  
your  answer  (20)  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Practice  Paper  5  
Romeo  and  Juliet    –  from  Act  1  Scene  3,  lines  1  to  35.  
In  this  extract,  Juliet,  her  mother  and  the  Nurse  are  having  a  discussion.  
 
Lady  Capulet  
Nurse,  where’s  my  daughter?  Call  her  forth  to  me.  
Nurse  
Now  by  my  maidenhead  at  twelve  year  old,  
I  bade  her  come.  What,  lamb!  What,  ladybird!  
God  forbid!  Where’s  this  girl?  What,  Juliet!  

Enter  Juliet.  

Juliet  
How  now,  who  calls?  
Nurse  
Your  mother.  
Juliet  
Madam,  I  am  here,  
What  is  your  will?  
Lady  Capulet  
This  is  the  matter.  Nurse,  give  leave  a  while,  
We  must  talk  in  secret.  Nurse,  come  back  again,  
I  have  rememb’red  me,  thou  s’  hear  our  counsel.  
Thou  knowest  my  daughter’s  of  a  pretty  age.  
Nurse  
Faith,  I  can  tell  her  age  unto  an  hour.  
Lady  Capulet  
She’s  not  fourteen.  
Nurse  
I’ll  lay  fourteen  of  my  teeth—  
And  yet,  to  my  teen  be  it  spoken,  I  have  but  four—  
She’s  not  fourteen.  How  long  is  it  now  
To  Lammas-­‐tide?  
Lady  Capulet  
A  fortnight  and  odd  days.  
Nurse  
Even  or  odd,  of  all  days  in  the  year,  
Come  Lammas-­‐eve  at  night  shall  she  be  fourteen.  
Susan  and  she—God  rest  all  Christian  souls!—  
Were  of  an  age.  Well,  Susan  is  with  God,  
She  was  too  good  for  me.  But  as  I  said,  
On  Lammas-­‐eve  at  night  shall  she  be  fourteen,  
That  shall  she,  marry,  I  remember  it  well.  
’Tis  since  the  earthquake  now  aleven  years,  
And  she  was  wean’d—I  never  shall  forget  it—  
Of  all  the  days  of  the  year,  upon  that  day;  
For  I  had  then  laid  wormwood  to  my  dug,  
Sitting  in  the  sun  under  the  dove-­‐house  wall.  
My  lord  and  you  were  then  at  Mantua—  
Nay,  I  do  bear  a  brain—but  as  I  said,  
When  it  did  taste  the  wormwood  on  the  nipple  
Of  my  dug  and  felt  it  bitter,  pretty  fool,  
To  see  it  tetchy  and  fall  out  wi’  th’  dug!  
Shake,  quoth  the  dove-­‐house;  ’twas  no  need,  I  trow,  
To  bid  me  trudge.  
 
1.  A)  Explore  how  Shakespeare  presents  the  Nurse  in  this  extract.  Refer  
closely  to  the  extract  in  your  answer.  (20)  

B) Explain  the  importance  of  status  elsewhere  in  the  play.  In  your  
answer,  you  must  consider:    
•  when  status  is  shown    
•  the  reasons  why  status  is  important.  You  must  refer  to  the  context  of  
the  play  in  your  answer  (20)  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Practice  Paper  6  
Romeo  and  Juliet    –  from  Act  1  Scene  1,  lines  75  to  124.  
In  this  extract,  The  Prince  reprimands  the  Capulets  and  Montagues.  
 
Prince    
Rebellious  subjects,  enemies  to  peace,  
Profaners  of  this  neighbor-­‐stained  steel—  
Will  they  not  hear?—What  ho,  you  men,  you  beasts!  
That  quench  the  fire  of  your  pernicious  rage  
With  purple  fountains  issuing  from  your  veins—  
On  pain  of  torture,  from  those  bloody  hands  
Throw  your  mistempered  weapons  to  the  ground,  
And  hear  the  sentence  of  your  moved  prince.  
Three  civil  brawls,  bred  of  an  airy  word,  
By  thee,  old  Capulet,  and  Montague,  
Have  thrice  disturb’d  the  quiet  of  our  streets,  
And  made  Verona’s  ancient  citizens  
Cast  by  their  grave  beseeming  ornaments  
To  wield  old  partisans,  in  hands  as  old,  
Cank’red  with  peace,  to  part  your  cank’red  hate;  
If  ever  you  disturb  our  streets  again  
Your  lives  shall  pay  the  forfeit  of  the  peace.  
For  this  time  all  the  rest  depart  away.  
You,  Capulet,  shall  go  along  with  me,  
And,  Montague,  come  you  this  afternoon,  
To  know  our  farther  pleasure  in  this  case,  
To  old  Free-­‐town,  our  common  judgment-­‐place.  
Once  more,  on  pain  of  death,  all  men  depart.  

Exeunt  all  but  Montague,  Lady  Montague,  and  Benvolio.  

Montague  
Who  set  this  ancient  quarrel  new  abroach?  
Speak,  nephew,  were  you  by  when  it  began?  
Benvolio  
Here  were  the  servants  of  your  adversary,  
And  yours,  close  fighting  ere  I  did  approach.  
I  drew  to  part  them.  In  the  instant  came  
The  fiery  Tybalt,  with  his  sword  prepar’d,  
Which,  as  he  breath’d  defiance  to  my  ears,  
He  swung  about  his  head  and  cut  the  winds,  
Who,  nothing  hurt  withal,  hiss’d  him  in  scorn.  
While  we  were  interchanging  thrusts  and  blows,  
Came  more  and  more,  and  fought  on  part  and  part,  
Till  the  Prince  came,  who  parted  either  part.  
Lady  Montague  
O,  where  is  Romeo?  Saw  you  him  today?  
Right  glad  I  am  he  was  not  at  this  fray.  
Benvolio  
Madam,  an  hour  before  the  worshipp’d  sun  
Peer’d  forth  the  golden  window  of  the  east,  
A  troubled  mind  drive  me  to  walk  abroad,  
Where,  underneath  the  grove  of  sycamore  
That  westward  rooteth  from  this  city  side,  
So  early  walking  did  I  see  your  son.  
Towards  him  I  made,  but  he  was  ware  of  me,  
And  stole  into  the  covert  of  the  wood.  
I,  measuring  his  affections  by  my  own,  
Which  then  most  sought  where  most  might  not  be  found,  
Being  one  too  many  by  my  weary  self,  
Pursued  my  humor  not  pursuing  his,  
And  gladly  shunn’d  who  gladly  fled  from  me.

1. A)  Explore  how  Shakespeare  presents  the  Prince  in  this  extract.  Refer  
closely  to  the  extract  in  your  answer.  (20)  
 
B)    Explain  the  importance  of  hatred  elsewhere  in  the  play.  In  your  
answer,  you  must  consider:    
•  where  the  hatred  is  shown    
•  the  reasons  for  the  hatred.  You  must  refer  to  the  context  of  the  play  in  
your  answer.  (20)  
 
 
 
 

 
Practice  Paper  7  

Romeo  and  Juliet    –  from  Act  5  Scene  3,  lines  74  to  [Link]  this  extract,  Romeo  
decides  to  commit  suicide.    

Romeo  
In  faith,  I  will.  Let  me  peruse  this  face.  
Mercutio’s  kinsman,  noble  County  Paris!  
What  said  my  man,  when  my  betossed  soul  
Did  not  attend  him  as  we  rode?  I  think  
He  told  me  Paris  should  have  married  Juliet.  
Said  he  not  so?  Or  did  I  dream  it  so?  
Or  am  I  mad,  hearing  him  talk  of  Juliet,  
To  think  it  was  so?  O,  give  me  thy  hand,  
One  writ  with  me  in  sour  misfortune’s  book!  
I’ll  bury  thee  in  a  triumphant  grave.  
A  grave?  O  no,  a  lantern,  slaught’red  youth;  
For  here  lies  Juliet,  and  her  beauty  makes  
This  vault  a  feasting  presence  full  of  light.  
Death,  lie  thou  there,  by  a  dead  man  interr’d.  

Laying  Paris  in  the  tomb.  

How  oft  when  men  are  at  the  point  of  death  
Have  they  been  merry,  which  their  keepers  call  
A  lightning  before  death!  O  how  may  I  
Call  this  a  lightning?  O  my  love,  my  wife,  
Death,  that  hath  suck’d  the  honey  of  thy  breath,  
Hath  had  no  power  yet  upon  thy  beauty:  
Thou  art  not  conquer’d,  beauty’s  ensign  yet  
Is  crimson  in  thy  lips  and  in  thy  cheeks,  
And  death’s  pale  flag  is  not  advanced  there.  
Tybalt,  liest  thou  there  in  thy  bloody  sheet?  
O,  what  more  favor  can  I  do  to  thee,  
Than  with  that  hand  that  cut  thy  youth  in  twain  
To  sunder  his  that  was  thine  enemy?  
Forgive  me,  cousin!  Ah,  dear  Juliet,  
Why  art  thou  yet  so  fair?  Shall  I  believe  
That  unsubstantial  Death  is  amorous,  
And  that  the  lean  abhorred  monster  keeps  
Thee  here  in  dark  to  be  his  paramour?

 
 
1.  A)  Explore  how  Shakespeare  presents  Romeo’s  feelings  in  this  extract.    
Refer  closely  to  the  extract  in  your  answer.  (20)  
 
B)  In  this  extract,  Romeo  delivers  his  final  speech.  Explain  the  importance  of  
fate  elsewhere  in  the  play.    
 
In  your  answer,  you  must  consider:    
•  when  fate  is  shown    
•  the  reasons  why  fate  is  important.    
You  must  refer  to  the  context  of  the  play  in  your  answer  (20)  

 
Practice  Paper  8  

Romeo  and  Juliet    –  from  Act  3  Scene  1,  lines  105  to  [Link]  this  extract,  
Romeo  kills  Tybalt.    

Romeo  
This  gentleman,  the  Prince’s  near  ally,  
My  very  friend,  hath  got  this  mortal  hurt  
In  my  behalf;  my  reputation  stain’d  
With  Tybalt’s  slander—Tybalt,  that  an  hour  
Hath  been  my  cousin!  O  sweet  Juliet,  
Thy  beauty  hath  made  me  effeminate,  
And  in  my  temper  soft’ned  valor’s  steel!  

Enter  Benvolio.  

Benvolio  
O  Romeo,  Romeo,  brave  Mercutio  is  dead!  
That  gallant  spirit  hath  aspir’d  the  clouds,  
Which  too  untimely  here  did  scorn  the  earth.  
Romeo  
This  day’s  black  fate  on  more  days  doth  depend,  
This  but  begins  the  woe  others  must  end.  

Enter  Tybalt.  

Benvolio  
Here  comes  the  furious  Tybalt  back  again.  
Romeo  
He  gone  in  triumph,  and  Mercutio  slain!  
Away  to  heaven,  respective  lenity,  
And  fire-­‐ey’d  fury  be  my  conduct  now!  
Now,  Tybalt,  take  the  “villain”  back  again  
That  late  thou  gavest  me,  for  Mercutio’s  soul  
Is  but  a  little  way  above  our  heads,  
Staying  for  thine  to  keep  him  company.  
Either  thou  or  I,  or  both,  must  go  with  him.  
Tybalt  
Thou  wretched  boy,  that  didst  consort  him  here,  
Shalt  with  him  hence.  
Romeo  
This  shall  determine  that.  

They  fight;  Tybalt  falls.  

Benvolio  
Romeo,  away,  be  gone!  
The  citizens  are  up,  and  Tybalt  slain.  
Stand  not  amazed,  the  Prince  will  doom  thee  death  
If  thou  art  taken.  Hence  be  gone,  away!  
Romeo  
O,  I  am  fortune’s  fool!  
Benvolio  
Why  dost  thou  stay?  

Exit  Romeo.  

1.  A)  Explore  how  Shakespeare  presents  Romeo  in  this  extract.  Refer  closely  to  
the  extract  in  your  answer.  (20)  
 

B  )  Explain  the  importance  of  revenge  elsewhere  in  the  play.  In  your  answer,  
you  must  consider:  

•    where  revenge  is  shown    

•  how  revenge  affects  those  involved.  You  must  refer  to  the  context  of  the  play  
in  your  answer.  (20)  

 
Practice  Paper  9  

Romeo  and  Juliet    –  from  Act  1  Scene  2,  lines  13  to  [Link]  this  extract,  Capulet  
discusses  Juliet’s  future  with  Paris.    

Capulet  
And  too  soon  marr’d  are  those  so  early  made.  
Earth  hath  swallowed  all  my  hopes  but  she;  
She’s  the  hopeful  lady  of  my  earth.  
But  woo  her,  gentle  Paris,  get  her  heart,  
My  will  to  her  consent  is  but  a  part;  
And  she  agreed,  within  her  scope  of  choice  
Lies  my  consent  and  fair  according  voice.  
This  night  I  hold  an  old  accustom’d  feast,  
Whereto  I  have  invited  many  a  guest,  
Such  as  I  love,  and  you,  among  the  store  
One  more,  most  welcome,  makes  my  number  more.  
At  my  poor  house  look  to  behold  this  night  
Earth-­‐treading  stars  that  make  dark  heaven  light.  
Such  comfort  as  do  lusty  young  men  feel  
When  well-­‐apparell’d  April  on  the  heel  
Of  limping  winter  treads,  even  such  delight  
Among  fresh  fennel  buds  shall  you  this  night  
Inherit  at  my  house;  hear  all,  all  see;  
And  like  her  most  whose  merit  most  shall  be;  
Which  on  more  view  of  many,  mine,  being  one,  
May  stand  in  number,  though  in  reck’ning  none.  
Come  go  with  me.  

To  Second  Servingman.  

Go,  sirrah,  trudge  about  

Through  fair  Verona,  find  those  persons  out  
Whose  names  are  written  there,  and  to  them  say,  
My  house  and  welcome  on  their  pleasure  stay.  

Exit  with  Paris.  

Second  Servingman  
Find  them  out  whose  names  are  written  here!  It  is  written  that  the  shoemaker  
should  meddle  with  his  yard  and  the  tailor  with  his  last,  the  fisher  with  his  
pencil  and  the  painter  with  his  nets;  but  I  am  sent  to  find  those  persons  whose  
names  are  here  writ,  and  can  never  find  what  names  the  writing  person  hath  
here  writ.  I  must  to  the  learned.  In  good  time!  
1.  A)  Explore  how  Shakespeare  presents  Lord  Capulet  in  this  extract.  Refer  
closely  to  the  extract  in  your  answer.  (20)  
 

B  )  Explain  the  importance  of  parents  elsewhere  in  the  play.  In  your  answer,  
you  must  consider:  

•    where  parents  are  shown    

•  how  parents  affect  the  characters  involved.  You  must  refer  to  the  context  of  
the  play  in  your  answer.  (20)  

 
Practice  Paper  10  
Romeo  and  Juliet    –  from  Act  1  Scene  5,  lines  92  to  [Link]  this  extract,  Romeo  
and  Juliet  meet  for  the  first  time.    

Romeo  

To  Juliet.  

If  I  profane  with  my  unworthiest  hand  

This  holy  shrine,  the  gentle  sin  is  this,  
My  lips,  two  blushing  pilgrims,  ready  stand  
To  smooth  that  rough  touch  with  a  tender  kiss.  
Juliet  
Good  pilgrim,  you  do  wrong  your  hand  too  much,  
Which  mannerly  devotion  shows  in  this:  
For  saints  have  hands  that  pilgrims’  hands  do  touch,  
And  palm  to  palm  is  holy  palmers’  kiss.  
Romeo  
Have  not  saints  lips,  and  holy  palmers  too?  
Juliet  
Ay,  pilgrim,  lips  that  they  must  use  in  pray’r.  
Romeo  
O  then,  dear  saint,  let  lips  do  what  hands  do,  
They  pray—grant  thou,  lest  faith  turn  to  despair.  
Juliet  
Saints  do  not  move,  though  grant  for  prayers’  sake.  
Romeo  
Then  move  not  while  my  prayer’s  effect  I  take.  
Thus  from  my  lips,  by  thine,  my  sin  is  purg’d.  

Kissing  her.  

Juliet  
Then  have  my  lips  the  sin  that  they  have  took.  
Romeo  
Sin  from  my  lips?  O  trespass  sweetly  urg’d!  
Give  me  my  sin  again.  
Kissing  her  again.  

Juliet  
You  kiss  by  th’  book.  
Nurse  
Madam,  your  mother  craves  a  word  with  you.  
Romeo  
What  is  her  mother?  
Nurse  
Marry,  bachelor,  
Her  mother  is  the  lady  of  the  house,  
And  a  good  lady,  and  a  wise  and  virtuous.  
I  nurs’d  her  daughter  that  you  talk’d  withal;  
I  tell  you,  he  that  can  lay  hold  of  her  
Shall  have  the  chinks.  
Romeo  
Is  she  a  Capulet?  
O  dear  account!  My  life  is  my  foe’s  debt.  
Benvolio  
Away,  be  gone,  the  sport  is  at  the  best.  
Romeo  
Ay,  so  I  fear,  the  more  is  my  unrest.  

1.  A)  Explore  how  Shakespeare  presents  the  relationship  between  Romeo  and  
Juliet  this  extract.  Refer  closely  to  the  extract  in  your  answer.  (20)  
 

B  )  Explain  the  importance  of  religion  elsewhere  in  the  play.  In  your  answer,  
you  must  consider:  

•    where  religion  is  shown    

•  how  religion  affects  the  characters  involved.  You  must  refer  to  the  context  of  
the  play  in  your  answer.  (20)