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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: What does the Prince say will happen in Act 1 if the Montagues and Capulets
keep fighting?
Plot – 100 points
A: They will be killed
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: Why doesn’t Romeo want to fight Tybalt?
Plot – 300 points
A: Because he is now his cousin
Plot – 400 points
Q: What is Friar Laurence’s plan to save Juliet from
marrying Paris?
Plot – 400 points
A: Juliet will take a sleeping potion to make it appear
like she is dead. Romeo will then be in the tomb when
she wakes up, and they can escape to Mantua together.
Plot – 500 points
Q: Which characters die in Act 5?
Plot – 500 points
A: Romeo, Juliet, Paris and Lady Montague
Quotes – 100 points
“But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; my will to her
consent is but a part”
Q: Who said this quote?
Quotes – 100 points
A: Lord Capulet
Questions – 200 points
“What’s in a name? That which we call a Rose by any other word would smell as
sweet”
Q: Which character said this and who is he/she talking to?
Questions – 200 points
A: Juliet, talking to Romeo
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
“For there never was a story of more woe Than this of
Juliet and her Romeo”
Q: Which character said this quote and when does
he/she say it?
Quotes – 500 points
A: The Prince, at the end of the play
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: What literary device is this an example of?
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 serious situation.
Literary Devices – 300 points
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks. It is
the east and Juliet is the sun”
Q: What literary device is this an example of?
Literary Devices – 300 points
A: Metaphor
Juliet is being compared to 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: What literary device is this an example of?
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 answers Mrs. Brown is willing to accept!
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 expected to
have in the Elizabethan era?
Shakespeare/Theatre – 300 points
A: Strong singing voices, dancing ability, acrobatic
talents, fencing experience, good memories
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