This was Shakespeare's inspiration for most of his plays.
What were famous stories of the time?
100
Who said this? "Thy face is mine, and thou hast slandered it."
Who is Paris?
100
Why is Juliet's impending wedding "cross and full of sin?"
What is because she is already married to Romeo?
100
This character's first name is Angelica.
Who is the Nurse?
100
Shakespeare has the Nurse ask for this when she discovers Juliet "dead" to further develop her crass, lower-class character?
What is alcohol? (Aqua vitae)
200
This was the country in which the Renaissance started.
What was Italy?
200
Who said this? "Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die"?
Who is Juliet?
200
Paris is the first to do this.
What is arrive at the tomb?
200
This character was unable to deliver Friar Laurence's letter to Romeo because city officials thought he had been exposed to the Plague.
Who is Friar John?
200
We saw these two metaphors before in the play. Name one.
What is quick love=gunpowder and Romeo=ship being controlled by an outside force?
300
These were famous arts/science people from the Renaissance (not counting Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I). Name TWO.
Who was Michaelangelo, daVinci, Raphael, Copernicus, Galileo, Christopher Marlow, or Martin Luther?
300
Who said this? "Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. Her body sleeps in Capel's monument, and her immortal part with angel lives"?
Who is Balthazar?
300
Romeo's mother dies because of this.
What is grief over Romeo's banishment?
300
Romeo asks this character for forgiveness.
Who is Tybalt?
300
Shakespeare does this to separate the audience from the action on stage because the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is over-emphasize the "mourning talk?"
400
This is the name of Elizabeth's reign (not "Elizabethan Era" or "Renaissance England"). Hint: England was big and powerful in the world at the time...
What is "The Golden Age?"
400
Who said this? "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo"?
Who is the Prince? (In the movie, it's the chorus—but because we're literature purists, we are going by the play.)
400
This was the chance happening in Mantua.
What is Romeo noticing the apothecary's shop (if he hadn't noticed it, he wouldn't have known where to go to get the poison)?
400
This character made most of the arrangements for Juliet's wedding.
Who is the Lord Capulet?
400
Why might Shakespeare have made Lord Capulet talk about Juliet being a flower killed by frost? (The answer is not a reference to her being a virgin.)
What is to emphasize the lesson of "appreciate what you have while you have it" OR emphasize the cruelty Lord Capulet showed to Juliet earlier (Lord Capulet just got done kicking Juliet out of the house, and now, when it's too late, he treats her delicately...nice...)
500
This was the name of the family Elizabeth I and Henry VIII came from.
What was "Tudor?"
500
Who said this? "Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet; and she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife."
Who is Friar Laurence/The Friar?
500
This is an example of Romeo's impulsivity in Mantua—if he had waited, things might have turned out better.
What is believing Balthazar's report that Juliet was dead (he should have waited to hear from the Friar)?
500
To Lord Capulet, this nonspeaking "character" married and "deflowered" Juliet.
Who is Death?
500
Shakespeare develops these two important themes in the scene with the apothecary. Name one.
What is money is evil? or What is love moderately/impulsiveness will get you in trouble, so slow down...