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Sixty questions across all five acts: who speaks, what happens when, why they do it, and the language that carries it.
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60 questions
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When Capulet calls for his long sword in the first street brawl, who answers, "A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword?"
In which act does Romeo buy a dram of poison from a starving apothecary in Mantua?
Before Tybalt comes back into the square, Romeo says, "This day's black fate on mo days doth depend; / This but begins the woe others must end." What does the line reveal?
Juliet calls Romeo a "Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, / Dove-feather'd raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!" What is at work in these paired terms?
Which statement about Friar Laurence's plan for Juliet is NOT true?
In Act 1, Scene 2, who puts Paris off with "My child is yet a stranger in the world, / She hath not seen the change of fourteen years"?
Put these in the order the play stages them: (1) Romeo kills Tybalt, (2) Romeo and Juliet are married at the Friar's cell, (3) Friar John fails to carry the letter to Mantua, (4) Juliet drinks the vial.
Romeo begins to swear by the moon and Juliet stops him: "O swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circled orb." Why refuse that oath?
Standing over Juliet in the tomb, Romeo says her beauty makes "This vault a feasting presence full of light." What device is this?
Which statement about the Capulet feast in Act 1 is NOT true?
Seeing Juliet across the hall for the first time, who says, "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"?
Capulet tells Paris in Act 1 to wait two more summers for Juliet. When does he change his mind and name a wedding day?
Leaving the window at dawn, Juliet says, "O God! I have an ill-divining soul! / Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb." What does the line reveal?
At the feast Romeo says Juliet "hangs upon the cheek of night / As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear." What device is this?
Which statement about the quarrel between the two households is NOT true?
Asked what Tybalt is, who answers, "More than Prince of cats. O, he's the courageous captain of compliments"?
In which act does the Nurse advise Juliet to give Romeo up and marry Paris?
Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet on the morning Romeo asks him?
Waiting with Romeo before the wedding, Friar Laurence prays, "So smile the heavens upon this holy act / That after-hours with sorrow chide us not." What is this?
Which statement about Romeo's banishment is NOT true?
Waiting for news of Romeo, who says, "Love's heralds should be thoughts, / Which ten times faster glides than the sun's beams"?
Put these in the order the play stages them: (1) Balthasar tells Romeo that Juliet is dead, (2) Friar John brings the undelivered letter back, (3) Romeo buys poison, (4) Juliet wakes in the vault.
Alone with the vial, Juliet asks whether it may be "a poison, which the Friar / Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead." Why does that fear cross her mind?
Calling Romeo out of the Capulet garden, Mercutio names "Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so trim / When King Cophetua lov'd the beggar-maid." What is Shakespeare using here?
Which statement about the Nurse is NOT true?
Gathering herbs at dawn, who says, "Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied, / And vice sometime's by action dignified"?
In which act does Romeo climb the orchard wall and overhear Juliet speaking at her window?
Why does Balthasar ride to Mantua with the news that Juliet is dead?
Act 4 ends with Peter and three musicians joking over "silver sound" minutes after the household has found Juliet dead. What is this scene doing?
Which statement about Verona and Mantua in the play is NOT true?
Trying to move the quarrel out of the street, who says, "We talk here in the public haunt of men. / Either withdraw unto some private place"?
Which of these comes EARLIEST in the play?
Why does Friar Laurence set off for the monument alone with a crow and a spade?
Paris asks Capulet for Juliet and waits on her father's word; Romeo climbs the orchard wall and is married in secret within a day. What does setting the two suitors side by side make Paris?
Which statement about Juliet is NOT true?
Alone and waiting for night, who says, "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, / Towards Phoebus' lodging"?
Put these in the order the play stages them: (1) The Prince banishes Romeo, (2) Juliet wakes in the tomb, (3) The Chorus speaks the Prologue, (4) Romeo and Juliet meet at the Capulet feast.
As soon as he hears Juliet is dead, Romeo remembers a shop with a tortoise and a stuffed alligator hanging in it. Why that shop?
Romeo tells Juliet at dawn that "Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." What device is this?
Which statement about the letters and messages in the play is NOT true?
Told that Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood, who bursts out, "There's no trust, / No faith, no honesty in men. All perjur'd, / All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers"?
Which of these happens AFTER Juliet drinks the Friar's potion?
In the vault Romeo lays the man he has just killed beside Juliet, saying, "I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. / A grave? O no, a lantern." Why does he do it?
Juliet tells her mother, "when I do, I swear / It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, / Rather than Paris." What is at work in the speech?
Which statement about Tybalt is NOT true?
Who promises Juliet to send to one in Mantua who "Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram / That he shall soon keep Tybalt company"?
In which act does Mercutio deliver the Queen Mab speech?
Paris presses Juliet at the cell, "Do not deny to him that you love me," and she answers, "I will confess to you that I love him." What is she doing?
Refusing to dance on the way in, Romeo says, "Give me a torch, I am not for this ambling; / Being but heavy I will bear the light." What is he doing with the word light?
Which statement about Paris is NOT true?
Standing over Juliet's body, who says, "Beguil'd, divorced, wronged, spited, slain. / Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd"?
Put these in the order the play stages them: (1) Capulet moves the wedding forward to Wednesday, (2) Tybalt sends a challenge to Romeo's house, (3) Balthasar brings Romeo news of Juliet's death, (4) Juliet learns Romeo has killed Tybalt.
In Mantua Romeo says, "I dreamt my lady came and found me dead ... And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips, / That I reviv'd." What does the dream do in the scene?
Act 5, Scene 3 puts Paris and his page in the churchyard first and has them hide when Romeo arrives with a torch and a crowbar. What does keeping Paris on stage accomplish?
Drinking the Friar's liquor, who cries, "Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here's drink! I drink to thee"?
Which of these happens LAST in Act 3?
Why does Romeo hand Balthasar a letter for his father before going into the vault?
Paying the apothecary, who says, "There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, / Doing more murders in this loathsome world"?
Put these in the order the play stages them: (1) Juliet takes the Friar's potion, (2) Juliet meets Romeo at the feast, (3) Juliet refuses Paris to her father's face, (4) Juliet learns Romeo has killed Tybalt.
Who closes the play with "For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo"?
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