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Romeo and Juliet
Characters Plot Quotes Literary Devices
Shakespeare & Elizabethan
Theatre
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Characters – 100 points
Q: Who is Romeo first in love with in the beginning
of the play?
Characters – 100 points
A: Rosaline
Characters – 200 points
Q: Which member of the Capulet family loves to
fight?
Characters – 200 points
A: Tybalt
Characters – 300 points
Q: Who develops a plan for Romeo to escape to Mantua and what is his relationship
to Romeo?
Characters – 300 points
A: Friar Laurence, Romeo’s friend
Characters – 400 points
Q: Who decides that Juliet should marry Paris and
what is his/her relationship to Juliet?
Characters – 400 points
A: Lord Capulet, Juliet’s father
Characters – 500 points
“His temperament jumps up and down like the mercury
in a thermometer.”
Q: Which character does this describe?
Characters – 500 points
A: Mercutio
Plot – 100 points
Q: How does Lord Capulet respond when Paris first
asks for Juliet’s hand?
Plot – 100 points
A: He tells Paris that she is too young and to get to
know her first
Plot – 200 questions
Q: Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and
Juliet?
Plot – 200 points
A: Because he hopes it will stop the feud between the Montagues and Capulets
Plot – 300 points
Q: Where does Act III begin?
Plot – 300 points
A: In the streets of Verona
Plot – 400 points
Q: What are the Capulets preparing for on the
morning of Juliet’s “death?”
Plot – 400 points
A: Her wedding
Plot – 500 points
Q: Which characters die in Act 5?
Plot – 500 points
A: Romeo, Juliet, Paris and Lady Montague
Quotes – 100 points
“What, drawn and talk of peace! I hate the word as I
hate hell, all Montagues and thee”
Q: Who said this quote?
Quotes – 100 points
A: Tybalt
Questions – 200 points
“Do not deny to him that you love me.”
Q: Which character said this and who is he/she talking to?
Questions – 200 points
A: Paris, talking to Juliet
Quotes – 300 points
“A plague on both your houses!”
Q: Which character said this and when does he/she say
it in the play?
Quotes – 300 points
A: Mercutio, before he dies
Quotes – 400 points
“Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust
and let me die”
Q: Which character said this and why is he/she saying it?
Quotes – 400 points
A: Juliet; she wants to kill herself because Romeo is
dead
Quotes – 500 points
“My poverty, but not my will, consents”
Q: Which character said this quote and when does
he/she say it?
Quotes – 500 points
A: The Apothecary, before he sells Romeo poison
Literary Devices – 100 points
“Two households both alike in dignity
In fair Verona where we set our scene…”
Q: What is this type of rhythm called in poetry?
Literary Devices – 100 points
A: Iambic Pentameter
Literary Devices – 200 points
“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave
man”
Q: Is this an example of a simile, allusion, or pun?
Literary Devices – 200 points
A: PunA pun is a play on words that wittily
exploits a double meaning. Shakespeare is referring to Mercutio’s death and a bad
situation.
Literary Devices – 300 points
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks. It is
the east and Juliet is the sun”
Q: This is an example of a metaphor. What two things
are being compared?
Literary Devices – 300 points
A: Juliet and the light/sun; she illuminates the room even though it is night.
Literary Devices – 400 points“The grey-eyed moon smiles
on the frowning night, Check’ring the eastern clouds
with streaks of light”
Q: Is this an example of metaphor, personification or
oxymoron?
Literary Devices – 400 points
A: Personification; the moon is given human-like
characteristics
Literary Devices – 500 points
Q: What is a theme of Romeo and Juliet?
Literary Devices – 500 points
A: Love, fate, chance, free will, family, youth, death and any other acceptable
answers
Shakespeare/Theatre – 100 points
Q: Where was the Globe Theatre located?
Shakespeare/Theatre – 100 points
A: London, England
Shakespeare/Theatre – 200 points
Q: What did Shakespeare leave to his wife when he died? (Hint – This shows that they
really didn’t get along…)
Shakespeare/Theatre – 200 points
A: The second best bed in the house
Shakespeare/Theatre – 300 points
Q: What characteristics were actors expect to have
in the Elizabethan era?
Shakespeare/Theatre – 300 points
A: strong singing voices, dancing ability, acrobatic talent, good memories,
expert fencers, practiced sleight-of-hand
Shakespeare/Theatre – 400 points
Q: Who could NOT be an actor in Shakespeare’s day?
Shakespeare/Theatre – 400 points
A: Women; all the parts were played by men
Shakespeare/Theatre – 500 points
Q: Why were theatres often closed down from 1603-
1610?
Shakespeare/Theatre – 500 points
A: BLACK PLAGUE: Cramped people would cough and go
to the bathroom in the theatre right next to each other; lack of sanitation in
the theatre
