Juliet’s cousin

ANSWER : Tybalt

was quarantined in a sick house and couldn’t deliver a message to Romeo

ANSWER : Friar John

put a curse on both houses as he was dying

ANSWER : Mercutio

asks permission of Juliet’s father to marry her

ANSWER : Paris

makes potions out of herbs he collects

ANSWER : Friar Lawrence

sells poison because he is poor

ANSWER : apothecary

Romeo’s father

ANSWER : Lord Montague

dies from grief over Romeo’s banishment

ANSWER : Lady Montague

wants Juliet to wait 2 years before marrying

ANSWER : Lord Capulet

girl Romeo loves at the beginning of the play

ANSWER : Rosaline

Romeo’s cousin and the play’s peacemaker

ANSWER : Benvolio

character who is a good host

ANSWER : Lord Capulet

the character who usually acts as messenger between Romeo and Juliet

ANSWER : Nurse

character who kills Mercutio

ANSWER : Tybalt

character who scatters flowers at Juliet’s grave

ANSWER : Paris

ruler of Verona

ANSWER : Prince Escalus

receives “confessions” of the two lovers

ANSWER : Friar Lawrence

apologizes to parents for disobedience

ANSWER : Juliet

dies by Tybalt’s sword

ANSWER : Mercutio

seeks parental consent to marry

ANSWER : Paris

dies from drinking poison

ANSWER : Romeo

brings wrong message to Romeo

ANSWER : Balthazar

dies by dagger

ANSWER : Juliet

How does Tybalt react when he sees Romeo at the Capulet party?

ANSWER : He is upset and wants to fight him

Which character ridicules the Nurse when she comes to deliver Juliet’s message to Romeo?

ANSWER : Mercutio

Who places Paris’s body near Juliet’s?

ANSWER : Romeo

Who runs away from the Capulet monument in fear?

ANSWER : Friar Lawrence

Who finds Juliet’s “dead” body in her bed chamber?

ANSWER : Nurse

Who might be considered the villain in the play?

ANSWER : Tybalt-mean, fighter, against Romeo. Makes him the true antagonist

Who kisses Juliet at the Capulet’s party?

ANSWER : Romeo

Who do Romeo’s friends think he might be with after the Capulet party?

ANSWER : Rosaline

What punishment does the Prince set for Romeo after the second street fight?

ANSWER : banishment

In what city does MOST of the play take place?

ANSWER : Verona

To what city does Romeo go near the end of the play?

ANSWER : Mantua

Whom does Mercutio call the King of Cats?

ANSWER : Tybalt

What fears does Juliet experience before taking the potion?

ANSWER : It wont work It’s poison She’ll suffocate in the tomb She’ll go mad waiting for Romeo in the 

tomb

Who gathers herbs and knows what to do with them?

ANSWER : Friar Lawrence

year of Shakespeare’s birth

ANSWER : 1564

year of Shakespeare’s death

ANSWER : 1616

Shakespeare’s nickname

ANSWER : The Bard

In what city was Shakespeare born?

ANSWER : Stratford-on-Avon

What was the name of Shakespeare’s theater?

ANSWER : The Globe

What percentage of Shakespeare’s plays are written in poetic form?

ANSWER : 72 percent

Name a reason his plays are difficult to read

ANSWER : *72 percent in poetic form *Language has changed so much from his time *Sentence 

structure was manipulated to fit the rhyme and meter of his poetry

Name of Shakespeare’s wife

ANSWER : Anne Hathaway

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon…”

ANSWER : Personification (the sun and the moon as ladies that are envious of each other)

Juliet’s speech just before she drinks the poison

ANSWER : soliloquy

“It were a grief so brief to part with thee”

ANSWER : Assonance (rhyming EE sound in grief, brief, thee)

“These violent delights have violent ends”

ANSWER : foreshadowing

“then love devouring death do what he dare”

ANSWER : personification (death eating) alliteration (repetition of D sound)

“He’s the courageous captain of compliments”

ANSWER : alliteration (repetition of C sound)

Benvolio and Tybalt in the same scene

ANSWER : Foil (they are opposite characters – peacemaker vs. fighter)

Act I

ANSWER : exposition

Act II

ANSWER : rising action

Act III

ANSWER : turning point/climax

Act IV

ANSWER : falling action

Act V

ANSWER : resolution (also known as denouement)

When Juliet is talking about Romeo and he is below the balcony but she doesn’t know it

ANSWER : dramatic irony

“You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead…”

ANSWER : pun (soles of shoes vs. sad inner soul)

“Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir”

ANSWER : personification

“Should in the farthest East begin to draw the shady curtains from Aurora’s bed”

ANSWER : allusion (Aurora – goddess)

“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and unknown too late”

ANSWER : rhyming couplet

“Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word”

ANSWER : allusion (Venus – goddess of love)

“Oh, then I see that Queen Mab hath been with you…”

ANSWER : Mercutio

“You kiss by the book…”

ANSWER : Juliet

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound”

ANSWER : Romeo

“There’s no faith, no trust, no honesty in men…”

ANSWER : Nurse

“Then, I defy you stars!”

ANSWER : Romeo

“Women may fall when there’s no strength in men…”

ANSWER : Friar Lawrence

“I tell thee what, get thee to church o’Thursday or never after look at me in the face”

ANSWER : Capulet

“Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’s cell. There stays a husband to make you a wife”

ANSWER : Nurse

“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man”

ANSWER : Mercutio

“For never was there a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo”

ANSWER : Prince

“My only love sprung from my only hate, too early seen unknown and known too late”

ANSWER : Juliet

“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, for I ne’er saw true beauty till this night”

ANSWER : Romeo

“Compare her face with some that I shall show, and I will make thee think thy swan a crow”

ANSWER : Benvolio

“This by his voice should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy…”

ANSWER : Tybalt

“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”

ANSWER : Romeo

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”

ANSWER : Juliet

“He bears him like a portly gentleman, and, to say truth, Verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well-governed youth.”

ANSWER : Capulet