1. Question 1: During what time period was the play Romeo and Juliet written?

2. Answer 1: -The Elizabethan period

3. Question 2: Besides plays, what other type of literature is Shakespeare known for?

4. Answer 2: -sonnets

5. Question 3: What was the name of the theater where Shakespeare’s plays were performed?

6. Answer 3: -The Globe

7. Question 4: What was the name of the theater company that Shakespeare worked for?

8. Answer 4: -Lord Chamberlain’s Men

9. Question 5: Who was Queen of England during Shakespeare’s time period?

10. Answer 5: -Queen Elizabeth I

11. Question 6: Written instructions that explain how characters should move or behave and how the setting appears are known as _________ ____________.

12. Answer 6: -Stage directions

13. Question 7: A sonnet that provides a quick summary of the overall play; sets up the themes of the play

14. Answer 7: -Prologue

15. Question 8: A character’s remark either to the audience or another character that others on stage are not supposed to hear.

16. Answer 8: -Aside

17. Question 9: a major division of a play

18. Answer 9: -Act

19. Question 10: the audience knows something the characters do not

20. Answer 10: -Dramatic irony

21. Question 11: rhythm of pairing ten syllables for each line into five pairs

22. Answer 11: -iambic pentameter

23. Question 12: a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes

24. Answer 12: -sonnet

25. Question 13: a lengthy speech made by a character alone on stage, displaying his/her internal thoughts

26. Answer 13: -soliloquy

27. Question 14: a literary work in which the tragic hero meets an unhappy ending.

28. Answer 14: -tragedy

29. Question 15: a humorous scene that relieves the play’s overall emotional intensity

30. Answer 15: -comic relief

31. Question 16: Juliet’s speech on the balcony which begins, “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” is not actually addressed to Romeo; she is speaking into the night, unaware of Romeo’s presence. So, this speech is an example of a ______________.

32. Answer 16: -soliloquy

33. Question 17: After Juliet speaks, Romeo asks, “Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?” This is Shakespeare’s way of letting the audience hear briefly what Romeo is thinking, but Juliet is not supposed to hear; thus it is an example of an ___________.

34. Answer 17: -aside

35. Question 18: The play opens with a Prologue (“Two households, both alike in dignity…”) which is delivered by the______________.

36. Answer 18: -Chorus

37. Question 19: While the audience knows Juliet is not really dead after taking the sleeping potion, most of the characters in the story assume that she is. This is an example of________________ in the plot.

38. Answer 19: -dramatic irony

39. Question 20: The lines from the Prologue that read, “a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” indicates the term “star-crossed” refers to:

40. Answer 20: -fate

41. Question 21: What does it mean to “bite your thumb” at someone in Elizabethan times?

42. Answer 21: -a great insult

43. Question 22: In Scene I, what ultimatum does the Prince give the Capulets and Montagues?

44. Answer 22: -Stop fighting, or be put to death.

45. Question 23: Romeo’s speech includes examples which literary element? “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief, that thou her maid art far more fair than she” (II. ii).

46. Answer 23: -metaphor

47. Question 24: What does Paris ask of Lord Capulet?

48. Answer 24: -Juliet’s hand in marriage

49. Question 26: Why does Romeo tell Juliet that if his name was written on a piece of paper, he would tear it up (“Had I it written, I would tear the word.”)?

50. Answer 26: -Names are what cause all the problems between them.

51. Question 27: What does Tybalt send to Romeo and the Montagues?

52. Answer 27: -a challenge to duel Romeo

53. Question 28: How does the Nurse give Juliet the news from Romeo?

54. Answer 28: She changes the subject often and prolongs telling the news

55. Question 29: When Friar Laurence sees Romeo so early the next day, he FIRST suspects that Romeo has been with:

56. Answer 29: -Rosaline

57. Question 30: The Friar agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because he:

58. Answer 30: -Thinks it may end their family’s feud

59. Question 31: Before being banished to Mantua, where does Romeo spend his last night in Verona?

60. Answer 31: -At the Capulet’s, specifically with Juliet ;)

61. Question 32: When Romeo tells Tybalt, “I love thee better than thou canst devise,” this is an example of:

62. Answer 32: -Dramatic irony

63. Question 33: When Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo then kills Tybalt, this the example of _______________ in the play.

64. Answer 33: -Climax

65. Question 34: What speech does Mercutio give to Romeo to cheer him up before the Capulet party?

66. Answer 34: - “The Queen Mab” speech