"Romeo and Juliet" Quotes
Who said this quote?
''O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?''
Juliet
(Romeo overhears her speaking to herself in the garden expressing her love to Romeo. Romeo responds and the two tell each other they want to get married).
Which two people facilitate Romeo and Juliet's secret wedding?
A. Tybalt
B. The Prince
C. Juliet's Nurse
D. Friar Lawrence
C. Juliet's Nurse
D. Friar Lawrence
How does Romeo kill himself?
poisoning himself
What is the biggest communication failure in the play that leads to Romeo, Juliet, and Paris dying?
Romeo's cousin and loyal friend
A. Tybalt
B. Mercutio
C. Benvolio
D. Paris
C. Benvolio
Who said this quote?
"Their course of love, the tidings of her death; and here he writes that he did buy a poison of a poor ’pothecary, and therewithal came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet. Where be these enemies?—Capulet, Montague, see what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love, and I, for winking at your discords too, have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished."
A. Lord Montague
B. Lord Capulet
C. Mercutio
D. Prince
D. The Prince
Where did Romeo and Juliet first meet?
A. Capulet party
B. Church
C. Streets of
D. Verona
A. Capulet Party
How stabs and kills Tybalt?
A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
C. Capulet
D. Mercutio
What happens because of Juliet's refusal to tell her parents she secretly got married?
She is forced to marry Paris.
Who does Romeo originally love?
A. Juliet
B. Rosaline
C. The Nurse
D. Lady Capulet
B. Rosaline
In Act One Romeo says this to Benvolio,
"She hath, and in that sparing ⌜makes⌝ huge waste;
For beauty, starved with her severity,
Cuts beauty off from all posterity.
She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,
To merit bliss by making me despair.
She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
Do I live dead, that live to tell it now" (1.1.226-232).
Who is he in love with?
A. Juliet
B. Rosaline
C. The Nurse
D. The Princess
B. Rosaline
How long did Romeo and Juliet know each other?
1. 1 day
2. 2. days
3. 4 days
5. 6 days
4 days
How does Juliet kill herself?
Stabs herself
How does Romeo find out about Juliets "death"?
Balthasar (his servant)
Who does Juliet's parents want her to marry?
A. Romeo
B. Tybalt
C. Paris
D. Abram
C. Paris
Who says this?
"God’s bread, it makes me mad.
Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,
Alone, in company, still my care hath been
To have her matched. And having now provided
A gentleman of noble parentage,
Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly ⌜ligned,⌝
Stuffed, as they say, with honorable parts,
Proportioned as one’s thought would wish a man—
And then to have a wretched puling fool,
A whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender,
To answer “I’ll not wed. I cannot love.
I am too young. I pray you, pardon me" (3.5.187-198).
A. The Prince
B. Lord Capulet
C. Romeo
D. Lord Montague
B. Lord Capulet
Who dies first?
A. Romeo
B. Juliet
B. Romeo
How did lady Montague die?
What miscommunication leads to Mercutio death?
Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt because he just married Juliet (Tybalt's cousin). Mercutio thinks Romeo is being cowardly so he takes over the fight and dies. This leads Romeo to avenge Mercutio's death, Tybalt is killed, and Romeo is banished for killing him.
Who comes up with the plan for Juliet to drink the sleeping potion?
A. Romeo
B. Friar Lawrence
C. Tybalt
D. Lady Capulet
B. Friar Lawrence
Who said this?
"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."
A. Romeo
B. Friar Lawrence
C. Benvolio
D. Tybalt
B. Friar Lawrence
Who dies at Juliet's tomb?
A. Paris
B. Tybalt
C. Mercutio
D. Friar Lawrence
A. Paris
How many people died in the play?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
C. 6
If Romeo had waited just a few minutes longer to drink the poison why might he have lived?
- Juliet woke up right after
- Friar Lawrence came in
Who finds Juliet's "dead" body on her wedding day?
A. Lady Capulet
B. Romeo
C. The Nurse
D. Friar Lawrence
C. The Nurse