Scene i-ii
Scene iii-iv
Scene v - vi
Vocab Words
Character Traits
100

The boys who go looking for Romeo after the Capulet party in scene i.

Who are Mercutio and Benvolio?

100

The person who knows first about Romeo's love for Rosaline and for Juliet.

Who is Friar Lawrence?

100

The reason Juliet thinks it takes the nurse so long to get Romeo's message back to her.

What is the fact that the Nurse is old and can't move quickly?

100

The word that means hatred or hostility.

What is Rancor or Rancour?

100

The character who is known as "The Prince of Cats," challenges Romeo to a duel, is related to Juliet, and is generally hot-headed.

Who is Tybalt?

200

Juliet is thinking about this when she is sitting alone on her balcony.

What is the nature of names? (Also will accept: Why is Romeo a Montague? etc.)

200

The person who says to the Nurse that her "fan's the fairer face."

Who is Mercutio?

200

The amount of time it takes the nurse to get the message to Juliet of her wedding plans.

What is 3 hours?

200
The word that means to scold.

What is Chide?

200

The character who is (too) quick to love, moody, and is close to Benvolio, Mercutio, and Friar Lawrence.

Who is Romeo?

300

Juliet doesn't want Romeo to swear by this object  because it is constantly changing.

What is the moon?

300

The reason Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet.

What is the idea that it could perhaps bring the Capulets and the Montagues together?

300

Juliet's excuse for going to Friar Lawrence on the afternoon of the wedding.

What is going to confession?

300

The meaning of the vocab word in this sentence: "Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine / Hath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline."

What is sickly / pale?

300

The character who is not very educated (uses lots of malapropisms), very talkative, loves Juliet, and gullible.

Who is the Nurse?

400

The character who first mentions the marriage of Romeo and Juliet.

Who is Juliet?

400

The two things that Romeo asks the Nurse to prepare for him for the wedding.

What are 1. to get Juliet to Friar Lawrence's cell in the afternoon and 2. to get a rope ladder for him to get to Juliet's room after the wedding?
400

Friar Lawrence's attitude towards the speed of Romeo & Juliet's relationship and marriage.

What is the idea that it is moving too quickly and that can ruin love or can make love turn rotten too soon?

400

The meaning of the vocab word in this sentence by Friar Lawrence: "The sweetest honey / Is loathsome in his own deliciousness / And in taste confounds the appetite"

What is confuses or obscures?

400

Who is Romeo's good friend, sarcastic, crude, talkative, and somewhat hot-headed?

Who is Mercutio?

500

The meaning of the following line: "Parting is such sweet sorrow, / That I shall say good-night till it be morrow!"

What is the idea that even though saying goodbye is sorrowful, Juliet loves doing it because she loves being in Romeo's company?

500

The meaning of the following line (From Friar Lawrence to Romeo): "Young men's love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."

What is the idea that young men don't love truly with their hearts, but that they just think they're in love with whatever they think is beautiful at the time?

500

All of the people who know of Romeo & Juliet's marriage.

Who are Romeo, Juliet, the Nurse, and Friar Lawrence (and Peter, I suppose)?

500

The meaning of the vocab word in this sentence spoken by Juliet to Romeo on the balcony "As sweet repose and rest / come to thy heart"

What is calm and peacefulness?
500

The character who is young, trusting, naiive, and - arguably - the main player in the leading relationship.

Who is Juliet?