Multiple Choice
In what city does the play take place?
Verona
When Romeo first appears in the play, in what condition is he?
Heartbroken
I am thirty and want to marry a 13 yr old.
Paris
I hate peace and all Montagues.
Tybalt
I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword,
Or manage it to part these men with me.
Benvolio
Either put up your sword or use it to help me stop the fight.
How old is Juliet at the beginning of the play?
13
Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
To bring the two families together and end the fued
Romeo is in love with me at the beginning of the play.
Rosaline
I try to keep the peace and stay out of trouble.
Benvolio
"Go thither, and with unattainted eye
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make the think they swan a crow."
Benvolio
Go to this party and see some girls who will make Rosaline look ugly.
Who tells Romeo and Benvolio about the Capulet?
Capulet Servant
Why does Romeo refuse to fight Tybalt?
Because he "loves" him.
After the bodies of Romeo and Juliet are found, I am found crying, shivering and carrying a crowbar outside the graveyard.
Friar Lawrence.
I sell poison to Romeo
Apothecary
"It is my lady! O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!"
It is Juliet! I just wish she knew I loved her!
How does Capulet respond when Paris first asks if he can marry Juliet?
Give her two more years and then she might be old enough, and woo her.
Why does Romeo kill Tybalt?
To avenge the death of Mercutio.
I love to kid around and no one ever takes me seriously
Mercutio
I am the Montague who gets in a fight with the Capulets at the beginning of the play
Abram
"Why is not this better now than groaning for
love? Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now
art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature."
Mercutio
Now you are yourself, Romeo!
In Elizabethan language, what does the word "wherefore" mean?
Why
What two bits of "good news" does Lady Capulet tell Juliet when she is crying uncontrollably after Romeo leaves for Mantua?
1. They are sending someone to Mantua to kill Romeo.
2. Her father has arranged for Paris to Marry her on Thursday.
I am the nurse's servant.
Peter
I bite my thumb at a Montague and start the fight at the beginning of the play.
Sampson
"Put this in any liquid thing you will
And drink it off, and if you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight."
Apothecary
This poison is very strong.