Romeo and Juliet
Quiz
A. General questions
1.
What is the name of the prince?
2.
To which families do the following belong:
a) Mercutio
b) Paris
c) Benvolio?
3.
How long is the friar’s drug supposed to work?
4.
What is the name of the friar sent with a message to Romeo?
5.
Where does Romeo go when he is banished?
6.
What are the two servants called who open the play?
7.
Are they Montagues or Capulets?
8.
With whom is Romeo in love at the outset of the play?
9.
How old was Juliet?
10.
What monuments do Capulet and Montague vow to raise at the end of the play?
B. Quotations
(a) who said the following
(b) to whom and
(c) when?
11.
"What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."
12.
"He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
13.
"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."
14.
"I am the drudge, and toil in your delight,
But you shall bear the burden soon at night."
15.
"I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.
The day is hot, the Capulets abroad;
And if we meet we shall not Iscape a brawl."
16.
"Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
17.
“I have an interest in your hate’s proceeding:
My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding."
18.
"It was the nightingale and not the lark
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear."
19.
"My poverty but not my will consents."
20.
"Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague!”
Can vengeance be pursued further than death?"
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C. More questions
21.
Where was the common place for the Prince to conduct trials?
22.
To what does Lady Capulet compare Paris when she describes him to Juliet?
23.
Who is the Queen of Fairies and what, according to Mercutio, does she do?
24.
How old, approximately, would Lady Capulet be?
25.
Who is ‘Prince of Cats’ ?
26.
When is Lammas-tide ?
27.
What is an ‘antic face’’?
28.
Who is called a "saucy boy” ?
29.
What is the name of the servant with Romeo at the tomb?
30.
How much money does Romeo pay the apothecary for the poison?
D. True or false?
31.
Tybalt sent a letter challenging Romeo to a duel.
32.
Romeo left a suicide note.
33.
Rosaline was a Capulet.
34.
The Nurse had a daughter named Susan.
35.
Lady Capulet plans to send a poisoner to murder Romeo in exile.
36.
Lady Montague dies of grief at Romeo’s banishment.
37.
The Prince sentences Friar Lawrence to death at the end of the play.
38.
Friar Lawrence was a Dominican monk.
39.
"Shrift" means going to church on Sunday.
40.
Shakespeare didn’t invent the story of Romeo and Juliet. He used an existing story which was already
quite well known.
E. Deaths in the play
(a) who dies in the play?
(b) when do they die?
(c) how do they meet their deaths?
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