2. CharactersPlotQuotes Literary Devices Shakespeare & Elizabethan Theatre 100 200 300 400 500

3. Characters – 100 points Q: Who is Romeo first in love with in the beginning of the play?

4. Characters – 100 points A: Rosaline

5. Characters – 200 points Q: Which member of the Capulet family loves to fight?

6. Characters – 200 points A: Tybalt

7. Characters – 300 points Q: Who develops a plan for Romeo to escape to Mantua and what is his relationship to Romeo?

8. Characters – 300 points A: Friar Laurence, Romeo’s friend

9. Characters – 400 points Q: Who decides that Juliet should marry Paris and what is his/her relationship to Juliet?

10. Characters – 400 points A: Lord Capulet, Juliet’s father

11. Characters – 500 points “His temperament jumps up and down like the mercury in a thermometer.” Q: Which character does this describe?

12. Characters – 500 points A: Mercutio

13. Plot – 100 points Q: How does Lord Capulet respond when Paris first asks for Juliet’s hand?

14. Plot – 100 points A: He tells Paris that she is too young and to get to know her first

15. Plot – 200 questions Q: Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?

16. Plot – 200 points A: Because he hopes it will stop the feud between the Montagues and Capulets

17. Plot – 300 points Q: Where does Act III begin?

18. Plot – 300 points A: In the streets of Verona

19. Plot – 400 points Q: What are the Capulets preparing for on the morning of Juliet’s “death?”

20. Plot – 400 points A: Her wedding

21. Plot – 500 points Q: Which characters die in Act 5?

22. Plot – 500 points A: Romeo, Juliet, Paris and Lady Montague

23. Quotes – 100 points “What, drawn and talk of peace! I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee” Q: Who said this quote?

24. Quotes – 100 points A: Tybalt

25. Questions – 200 points “Do not deny to him that you love me.” Q: Which character said this and who is he/she talking to?

26. Questions – 200 points A: Paris, talking to Juliet

27. Quotes – 300 points “A plague on both your houses!” Q: Which character said this and when does he/she say it in the play?

28. Quotes – 300 points A: Mercutio, before he dies

29. Quotes – 400 points “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die” Q: Which character said this and why is he/she saying it?

30. Quotes – 400 points A: Juliet; she wants to kill herself because Romeo is dead

31. Quotes – 500 points “My poverty, but not my will, consents” Q: Which character said this quote and when does he/she say it?

32. Quotes – 500 points A: The Apothecary, before he sells Romeo poison

33. Literary Devices – 100 points “Two households both alike in dignity In fair Verona where we set our scene…” Q: What is this type of rhythm called in poetry?

34. Literary Devices – 100 points A: Iambic Pentameter

35. Literary Devices – 200 points “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man” Q: Is this an example of a simile, allusion, or pun?

36. Literary Devices – 200 points A: Pun A pun is a play on words that wittily exploits a double meaning. Shakespeare is referring to Mercutio’s death and a bad situation.

37. Literary Devices – 300 points “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east and Juliet is the sun” Q: This is an example of a metaphor. What two things are being compared?

38. Literary Devices – 300 points A: Juliet and the light/sun; she illuminates the room even though it is night.

39. Literary Devices – 400 points “The grey-eyed moon smiles on the frowning night, Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light” Q: Is this an example of metaphor, personification or oxymoron?

40. Literary Devices – 400 points A: Personification; the moon is given human-like characteristics

41. Literary Devices – 500 points Q: What is a theme of Romeo and Juliet?

42. Literary Devices – 500 points A: Love, fate, chance, free will, family, youth, death and any other acceptable answers

43. Shakespeare/Theatre – 100 points Q: Where was the Globe Theatre located?

44. Shakespeare/Theatre – 100 points A: London, England

45. Shakespeare/Theatre – 200 points Q: What did Shakespeare leave to his wife when he died? (Hint – This shows that they really didn’t get along…)

46. Shakespeare/Theatre – 200 points A: The second best bed in the house

47. Shakespeare/Theatre – 300 points Q: What characteristics were actors expect to have in the Elizabethan era?

48. Shakespeare/Theatre – 300 points A: strong singing voices, dancing ability, acrobatic talent, good memories, expert fencers, practiced sleight-of-hand

49. Shakespeare/Theatre – 400 points Q: Who could NOT be an actor in Shakespeare’s day?

50. Shakespeare/Theatre – 400 points A: Women; all the parts were played by men

51. Shakespeare/Theatre – 500 points Q: Why were theatres often closed down from 1603- 1610?

52. Shakespeare/Theatre – 500 points A: BLACK PLAGUE: Cramped people would cough and go to the bathroom in the theatre right next to each other; lack of sanitation in the theatre