Quotes
Act III
Act IV
Act V
Shakespearean Facts
100

Who said "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”

Juliet

100

What happens to Romeo after he kills Tybalt?

He is exlied to Mantua.

100

Who discovers Juliet after she drinks the potion?

Nurse

100

What news does Balthasar bring to Romeo?

Juliet is dead.

100

Romeo and Juliet is what type of Shakespearean play?

Tragedy

200

Who said, "Here’s to my love! O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die!”

Romeo
200

Who is the first to quarrel in Act II Scene I?

Mercutio and Tybalt.

200

How do you know if you’re hiring a good cook?

They lick their own fingers.

200

Why is Friar John unable to deliver Friar Lawrence’s message to Romeo?

He was quarantined in a house due to an outbreak of the plague.

200

The story of Romeo and Juliet mainly takes place in what city?

Verona

300

Who said “...get thee to church o’ Thursday Or else never after look me in the face.”

Mercutio

300

Who does Mercutio curse with his dying breath?

Both house the Montagues and the Capulets

300

At the end of Act IV Scene IV when Peter and the musicians enter the scene, what type of literary element do they represent?

Comic Relief

300

Why does Paris fight Romeo?

He believes Romeo is there to desecrate the grave of Tybalt and Juliet

300

Shakespeare wrote all of his poems and most of his plays in what style.

Iambic Pentameter

400

Who said, “For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

Prince

400

How does Mercutio get stabbed?

He is stabbed under the arm of Romeo and when Romeo steps in between him and Tybalt to try to stop the fight.

400

What plan Friar Laurence comes up with to help Juliet?

He will give Juliet a drinking potion that will put her into a deep sleep for 42 hours.  She will be buried in her family tomb, and Romeo and Friar will greet her after she awakens.  She will then run away with Romeo and live happily ever after.

400

What does Prince announce will happen after Romeo and Juliet’s deaths?

Some people will be pardoned, some people will be punished.

400

What is the act of speaking one's thoughts aloud, regardless of any hearers, especially by characters in a play?

Soliloquy

500

1. Who said, “...get thee to church o’ Thursday Or else never after look me in the face.”

2. Who said, “...get thee to church o’ Thursday Or else never after look me in the face.”

Capulet

500

What does Romeo mean in the line “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting: villain am I none; Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not.”

Romeo loves Tybalt as he would a family member.  He is now married to Juliet, and Tybalt is unaware of this.  He has no desire to fight Tybalt.

500

Name 5 of Juliet's fears from drinking the potion.

The potion will not work, it will kill her, she will awaken too early, suffocation, go mad, see the ghost of Tybalt, surrounded by spirits, have to kill herself.

500

What is Romeo’s reasoning for going into the tomb?

To see Juliet one last time, and to take a ring from her finger.

500

Name the three types of plays Shakespeare wrote.

Tragedy, Comedy, History