A class test on both Romeo and Juliet and Jane Eyre Texts before controlled assessment on how strong feelings are presented in both texts (AQA)

1. Love it….Hate it…whatever
your feelings, its time to
express your knowledge of…
Romeo and
Jane Eyre
Juliet
By Charlotte Bronte
By William Shakespeare

2. 1. Why did Shakespeare set his play in
Verona, Italy?
Was it because:
A: Everything Italian was fashionable in
Tudor London in during Elizabeth’s reign
B: Italy was believed by English people to
be a country full of hot-blooded people and
warring families
C: Elizabeth I would not have allowed a
play to shown that showed London to be
the centre of the kind of lawless behaviour
Romeo and Juliet portrays

3. 2. Rome and Juliet are part
of two of Verona’s rich and
famous families – the kind
of families who would be
written about in Hello
magazine .
Give Rome and Juliet their
correct family names and
explain why Romeo and
Benvolio had to gate-crash
Juliet’s dad’s party to find
beautiful girls and would
never have been given a
proper invite.

4. 3. The prologue, structured as a
sonnet, gives a chance for the
audience to settle down (the
Elizabethans were a rowdy lot) and
prepares them for what they are about
to watch.
What is unusual about the prologue?
a. It tells the audience what happens
at the end of the play
b. It is written in Italian
c. It is structured as a sonnet, but uses
a different sonnet structure

5. 4. Romeo and Juliet are described in
the prologue as being ‘star-crossed
lovers’.
What would this suggest to the
play’s audience?
a. Romeo and Juliet are different
star signs (Romeo a rash Ares and
Juliet a careful Taurus)
b. They are innocent victims who
do not control their own destiny
and their fate is already written in
the stars
c. They only meet at night, under
the stars

6. 5. Romeo describes Juliet and her
beauty in many different ways,
but the thing he most often
compares her to is:
a. A heavenly angel
b. The virgin Mary
c. Light

7. She doth teach the torches to burn bright!’
‘
(1,v)
Q6 Name two other light sources to which Romeo
compares Juliet

8. ‘O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou
Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.’
Q7: Shakespeare used many different types of dramatic technique
in Romeo and Juliet to express emotions, create foreboding and
build tension. What type of dramatic technique does Shakespeare
use in Act 2, ii (Balcony scene) which allows Romeo to find out that
Juliet already loves him?

9. Q8: Why are Benvolio’s words ‘For now , these hot days, is the mad
blood stirring’, important for introducing Act 3,i (The Fight Scene)?

10. ?
Q9B: How does this insult
express Mercutio’s feelings
Q9: What name does for Tybalt?
Mercutio call Tybalt
which expresses all
Mercutio’s disgust
and lack of respect for
Tybalt Capulet?

11. ‘This day’s black fate on more
days doth depend:
This but begins the woe, others
must end.’
Q10: What is the effect on the audience of Romeo’s word after killing Tybalt?
10B: State two of Shakespeare’s literary techniques that make these lines very
effective?

12. ‘Thou desperate pilot,
now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy
sea-sick weary bark!’
Q11: Who is Romeo addressing with these words?
Q11B: Romeo has used the ‘bark’ (ship) metaphor before: When? and
why would this make the audience find his words even more upsetting
and tragic?

14. Q1: Approximately how many
years after Shakespeare wrote
Romeo and Juliet did Bronte
write her novel Jane Eyre?
a. 300 years
b. 200 years
c. 700 years

15. Q2: How would you describe
the novel, Jane Eyre?
a. A Victorian novel about
love, passion and revenge in
which love conquers all
b. A Victorian gothic romance
which deals with the
themes of
class, autonomy, love and
morality
c. A Victorian novel which
celebrates female power
and independence and
exposes male weakness
d. All three

16. Q3: Why is Jane so vulnerable in the
novel?
Q4: Jane has been brought up and educated to
repress (hold back) her feelings; but, she has
one way that she can express her strong
emotions. What is it?

17. Q5: What is the name of Rochester’s house where Jane
goes to work as governess?
Q5b: What makes this house and its setting typical of a gothic
novel?

18. Q6: What kind of
hero is Rochester?
a. Unreliable
b.Byronic
c. Dishonest

19. Q7: What is the narrative structure of
the novel, Jane Eyre?
a. First person narrative with a
chronological structure – the story is
told as if by Jane in the order the events
happened
b. Third person narrative – Bronte is
telling Jane and Rochester’s love
story from the perspective of a third
person narrator
c. First person narrative – Rochester
tells the story of how Jane’s love for
him gave him a reason to love life
again after his life was ruined when
he was tricked into marrying a mad
woman.

20. Q8: Why is Rochester only honest about his feelings for Jane when they
meet up outside?
a. Rochester, a Byronic hero, is a man of action and hates being cooped up
inside a house
b. The house represents the Victorian social conventions which dictated
how people should behave and especially supported the Victorian class
structure. Only outside could Rochester feel free from these restrictions
c. Jane is always finding an excuse to post a letter or do some kind of
errand to get out of her duties as governess to Adele and go and find
herself some real action – after all, the house and her job and the whole
being a woman in Victorian times thing is so boring and there is a limit
to how much drawing she can do

21. Q9: Poor Jane, she really feels
trapped. What is stopping her from
being able to truly be herself?
a. Lack of money
b. Lack of family – her parents are
dead and her aunt and cousins hate
her
c. The Victorian class structure – how
can a governess get anywhere in life
when they are either invisible to
other people or there just to be
abused?
d. All three

22. Q10: After meeting Rochester and falling in
love with him, Jane caught up in an emotional
torture and the struggle of what against what?
a. Good against evil
b. Reason against passion
c. Hot against cold
Q10b: What does Jane compare her feelings
towards Rochester with in Chapter 17:
a. A sick dog who cannot help licking his
wounds
b. A man dying of thirst who drinks from a
poisoned well even though he knows it
will kill him
c. An overweight woman who cannot help
herself from eating that fifth chocolate
cup cake

23. Q11: What kind of literary technique
does Bronte use to let the reader know
that Jane has made a big mistake
when she accepted Rochester’s
proposal (that will teach her for letting
passion rule reason) and that
something terrible will definitely
happen? (end of Chapter 23)

24. Q12: Rochester is a very troubled man,
but does not always express his
feelings very well, probably because he
is a Byronic hero. Yet, somehow, the
reader usually knows what he is
feeling.
How does Bronte give the reader so
much information about his feelings
without letting us into his head to hear
his thoughts?
Q12B: Can you give an example of this?