This was the name of the people who sat on the ground in front of the stage in Shakespeare's time.
What were the groundlings?
100
Who said this? "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
Who is Mercutio?
100
Mercutio does this before he dies, and some readers think it causes Romeo and Juliet's deaths.
What is put a curse (plague) on both houses?
100
This character got in the way during Mercutio's and Tybalt's fight.
Who is Romeo?
100
What was the chance happening in this act?
What was Romeo being in the square after the wedding. If he hadn't gotten married, he wouldn't have gotten involved in the fight.
200
This was the name of Shakespeare's theater.
What was the Globe Theater?
200
Who said this? "Oh, I am Fortune's fool!"
Who is the Romeo?
200
Romeo wonders this about Juliet when he is at Friar Laurence's cell.
What is he wants to know if she hates him because he killed her cousin?
200
This dead man was a relative of the Prince.
Who is Mercutio?
200
When Romeo says, "O, I am Fortune's fool!", who is Fortune?
What is Lady Luck/Luck? (He's saying that she has taken advantage of him and given him a lot of bad luck.)
300
This is the reason why London city officials hated the theater.
What is the Plague? or What is the fact that it encouraged immoral behavior (pick pockets, prostitutes)?
300
Who said this? "I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire, the day is hot, the Capulets are abroad, And, if we meet, we shall not 'scape a brawl, for now, these hot days is the mad blood stirring."
Who is Benvolio?
300
Juliet says this should happen to Romeo after he dies.
What cut him up into little stars and put him up in the sky for everyone to enjoy.
300
This character tells Romeo that he's acting like a woman.
Who is Friar Laurence/The Friar?
300
Explain Juliet's internal conflict.
What is she doesn't know who to be loyal to, her cousin (family) or her husband?
400
This is how actors in Shakespeare's time changed scenes in their plays.
What is with words?
400
Who said this? "O, god, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale."
Who is Juliet?
400
This is the advice the Friar gives to Romeo when he sees Romeo react to his punishment of banishment (this is before he really starts yelling at him).
What is he tells him he should be grateful for the blessings in his life—he's alive, Juliet's alive, etc.—and not focus on the bad things that are happening to him?
400
This character weeped and wailed for Tybalt and called him her best friend.
Who is the Nurse?
400
How does Shakespeare have Juliet communicate her true feelings of grief to the audience while she's talking to her mother?
What is speaking in double meanings?
500
This was the person who sponsored Shakespeare's acting troupe (gave them money to operate).
Who was Queen Elizabeth?
500
Who said this? "My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest that God had lent us but this only child; but now I see this one is one too much, and that we have a curse in having her. Out on her, hiding!"
Who is Lord Capulet?
500
This is the point when Juliet says "Amen" with finality.
What is the Nurse advised Juliet to marry Paris (she was the last one who could comfort her, and she failed Juliet)?
500
This character threatens to cut Romeo's name out of Romeo's body.
Who is Romeo?
500
What complication does Shakespeare add to the story that messes up the Friar's plan?
What is Lord Capulet moves the wedding up one day (which messes with the amount of time the Friar has to inform Romeo of the plan)?