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