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What is the setting of this play: city and country and era
What is Verona, Italy 16th century
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How old is Juliet's character in this version of the play?
What is 13?
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When Benvolio tries to break up the fight in the town square, who attacks him?
Who is Tybalt?
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What do Benvolio and Romeo decide to do after the servant stopped on the street and ask them to read Capulet's party invitation?
What is crash the party.
100
Who are the two fueding gangs in West Side Story?
What is "Jets" and "Sharks?"
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What does Paris ask Capulet in Act 1, Scene 2?
To marry Juliet.
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Why did the servant ask Romeo to read the party invitation for him?
He could not read.
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According to Mercutio, who is Queen Mab?
A fairy's midwife who crawls inside men's noses while they sleep and make them dream.
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What threat does the Prince make to the fueding citizens in the town square?
That he will execute anyone disturbing the peace again.
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How does Tybalt recognize Romeo?
By his speech.
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Who tries, unsuccessfully, to break up the fight in the town square when the play first begins?
Who is Benvolio?
300
When Paris first asks Capulet for his blessing in marrying Juliet, what is Capulet's answer?
What is "Let two more summer wither in their pride?"
300
Who is the equivalent of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story?
Who are Tony and Maria?
300
What is the setting for West Side Story (city, state, era)
What is "Upper West Side in New York City in the 1950's.
300
Why are Romeo and Juliet referred to as "star-crossed" lovers?
Because it was never in the stars (fate) for them to be together.
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Why does Romeo need to forget about Roseline? Why can he never have her?
Roseline has sworn to live a chaste life.
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What did Montague say about Romeo acting strangely?
That he he has caught Romeo crying in the morning and locking himself in his room to write.
400
When the Nurse tells Juliet that the stranger at the party is Romeo, a Montague, what does Juliet say to herself?
What is "My only love sprung from my only hate..."
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What does Mercutio say about dreams?
What is "...children of an idle brain begot of nothing but vain fantasy."
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What does Romeo think/say about Juliet the first time he sees her at the party?
What is "O she doth teach the torches to burn bright."
500
Who wrote the narrative poem that Shakespeare based Romeo and Juliet on?
Who is Authur Brooke?
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What was Author Brooke's original narrative poem titled?
What is "The Tragical Historye of Romeus and Juliet?"
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After Mercutio's rant prior to crashing the party, what is Romeo's mood?
He foretells his untimely death.
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When Lady Capulet asks "How stands your dispositions to be married?" what does Juliet reply?
What is "It is an honour that I dream not of."
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Where was Romeo and Juliet originally played (theatre, city, and country)?
In the Globe Theatre, London, England