Characters & Setting
This city in Italy is the setting of Romeo and Juliet.
Answer: What is Verona?
Romeo is sad at the start of the play because he is in love with this woman who does not love him back.
Who is Rosaline?
After the party, this person tells Juliet that she was talking to Romeo.
Who is the Nurse?
Romeo refuses to fight this person at first because Romeo doesn’t want to hurt a member of Juliet’s family.
Who is Tybalt?
Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion that will make her appear this for forty-two hours.
What is dead / asleep / fake death?
He is Juliet’s father, who is in charge of the household and arranges a marriage for Juliet.
Who is Lord Capulet?
Romeo learns about the Capulet party because this person asks him to read the invitation list.
Who is the Capulet servant?
Juliet agrees to have someone visit Romeo the next day to make plans for this.
What is to get married / to plan a marriage?
When Romeo refuses to fight, his friend gets involved and is later killed. Name that friend.
Who is Mercutio?
Romeo does not get Friar Laurence’s message and thinks Juliet has really done this, so he kills himself.
What is died?
These are the last names of the two feuding families in the play.
Who are the Montagues and Capulets?
Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time at this event held at Juliet’s house.
What is the Capulet party?
Romeo wants to marry Juliet as soon as possible and asks this religious man to marry them.
Who is Friar Laurence?
Romeo kills Tybalt to get revenge for this person’s death.
Who is Mercutio?
Before killing himself, Romeo fights and kills this person at Juliet’s tomb who came to leave flowers.
Who is Paris?
This official says that whoever starts the next public fight will be killed as punishment.
Who is the Prince?
At the party, this relative of Juliet becomes angry because Romeo is there and wants to fight him.
Who is Tybalt?
Friar Laurence at first refuses to marry Romeo and Juliet because Romeo was recently in love with this person.
Who is Rosaline?
Instead of execution, the Prince punishes Romeo with this penalty that forces him to leave Verona.
What is exile / banishment?
After Romeo dies, Juliet tries to find poison in his mouth and then does this to join him in death.
What is stabs herself / kills herself?
Name two members of Juliet’s family mentioned in the summary who are directly involved in the story (choose any two).
Who are Tybalt and Lady Capulet? (Other correct answers: Lord Capulet, the Nurse)
Lord Capulet stops Tybalt from fighting Romeo at the party for this reason.
Because he doesn’t want to ruin the mood of the party.
Friar Laurence agrees to marry them because he hopes it will cause this positive result between the families.
What is to stop the families’ fighting / bring peace?
Romeo thinks exile is worse than this because he cannot be with Juliet.
What is being killed?
The play Romeo and Juliet is called this type of story because the main characters die at the end.
What is a tragedy?