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Romeo & Juliet test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who wrote The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet? | William Shakespeare |
| Where was Shakespeare born? | Stratford Upon Avon, England |
| When was Shakespeare born & died? | 1564 to 1616 |
| When was Romeo and Juliet published? | 1597 during the English Renaissance period |
| What kind of plays does Shakespeare write? | Tragedies, comedies, histories |
| What do tragedies center around? | Characters with a tragic flaw |
| How many plays & sonnets did Shakespeare write? | 37 & 154 |
| What is a 14 line poem with a specific pattern of sound, rhyme & form? | Shakespearean Sonnet |
| Where were Shakespeare's plays performed? | The Globe Theater in England |
| When did Queen Elizabeth die? | 1603 |
| Who took Elizabeth's place? | King James I (James IV of Scotland) |
| Where is Romeo & Juliet set? | Verona, Italy |
| Who is Romeo in love with when the play opens? | Rosaline |
| Why does Romeo agree to go to the Capulet's party? | He wants to see Rosaline |
| Whose nature is it to fight? | Tybalt |
| What does Juliet mean when she says "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" | "Why are you Romeo?" |
| Who agrees to marry after knowing each other only a few days? | Romeo & Juliet |
| Who agrees to perform Romeo and Juliet's marriage in the hope that it will stop the feud between the Capulets and Montagues? | Friar Laurence |
| Who does Tybalt stab when Romeo interferes between his and Mercutio's fight? | Mercutio |
| What does Mercutio say when he has just been stabbed by Tybalt and is about to die? | "A plague on both your houses" |
| Where did Romeo go after he killed Tybalt? | Mantua |
| What does Juliet think when the Nurse brings news of Tybalt's death? | Romeo has been killed |
| According to Lord Capulet, why does Juliet weep all the time? | Because of Romeo's banishment |
| Why does Juliet finally agree to marry Paris? | Because she cannot resist her father |
| Who is the person who brings news of Juliet's death to Romeo? | Balthasar |
| What are Juliet's main thoughts while she is preparing to drink the potion? | Rejoining Romeo |
| What does Romeo do minutes before Juliet awakens? | Kills Paris and poisons himself |
| Whose plan fails because the letter doesn't get delivered to Romeo? | Friar Laurence |
| Who attacks Romeo at the tomb because they believe Romeo married Juliet before they did? | Paris |
| How does Juliet die? | Stabs herself |
| What do the Montagues and Capulets realize when they arrive to inspect the corpses of Paris, Romeo and Juliet? | Too late the foolishness of their bitter quarrel |
| What do the Capulets and Montagues agree to do when their children die? | End their feud and raise statues of their dead children |
| “I'll dispose of you among a sisterhood of holy nuns.” | Friar Laurence |
| "Or if I wake, won't I be driven mad, closed in with all these hideous fears, and play...with my ancestors' bones..." | Juliet |
| "But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." | Romeo |
| "Tybalt wanted to kill you, but you killed him. You are fortunate. The law that threatened your death became your friend and gave you exile. You are fortunate." | Nurse |
| "What's in a name? The thing which we call a rose would smell just as sweet if it had any other name." | Juliet |
| “A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me: I have it, And soundly too: your houses!” | Mercutio |
| "Take this bottle, and when you're in bed, drink this distilled liquor. Immediately, a cold and quieting liquid shall run through all your veins. Your pulse will stop. There'll be no warmth or breath to prove that you're alive." | Friar Laurence |
| “O sweet Juliet, Thy beauty hath made me effeminate And in my temper soften'd valour's steel!” | Romeo |
| "Then, since the case so stands as now it doth, I think it best you married with the County.” | Nurse |
| “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.” | Juliet |
| Fiend Angelical | Oxymoron |
| "Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance." Romeo--"Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead…"(I iv 13-5) | Metaphor |
| "But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." | Metaphor |
| "Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night" | Personification |
| It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night/ Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear; | Similie |
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