Vocabulary from Romeo and Juliet
- Loins means:
a. close proximity b. enemy c. thighs
2. The word foe means:
a. enemy b. a female deer c. to oppose
3. The word civil has two different meanings. They are:
a. polite or the internal part of a country b. war-like or having to do with business
4. The word mutiny means:
a. to feel seasick b. to rebel against a commanding officer c. to fight
5. The word strife means:
a. to try hard b. discord and conflict c. to hit or jab
6. The word ere means:
a. before b. an Elizabethan word for air c. here or there
7. The word piteous means:
a. feeling unwell b. so pathetic it arouses pity c. helpful
8. The word marred means:
a. a type of red color b. Elizabethan for marriage c. to be scarred or flawed
9. Mercurial:
a. having to do with hot weather b. ill-tempered c. changeable in moods
10. The word shrive means:
a. to confess one’s sins to a priest b. means to tremble from the cold c. means to cut
Comprehension:
11. The setting of the play Romeo and Juliet is in:
a. Verona, Italy b. London, England c. Mantua, Italy
12. Romeo and Juliet begins with:
a. a party at the Capulets’ b. servants trading insults which turn into a street brawl
c. a prologue in which the chorus informs us what will happen in the play
13. Benvolio tries to stop the fight.
a. True b. False
14. Shakespeare may have given Benvolio his name because the Latin prefix “ben” means:
a. good or well b. bad or evil c. untrustworthy
15. Benvolio is:
a. a Capulet and mean-spirited b. kind and Romeo’s cousin
16. Tybalt tries to stop the fight between the servants of the houses of the Montagues and the Capulets.
a. True b. False
17. Who eventually stops the fight?
a. the king b. the police c. the prince
18. What is going to happen if another brawl occurs in the city streets?
a. who ever is caught fighting will be executed b. the participants will be banished
c. the street brawlers will be thrown in jail for many years.
19. Who is also there at the fight?
a. Lord and Lady Capulet, and the Montagues b. Romeo c. Mercutio
20. What mood is Romeo when we first meet him?
a. he is ecstatically in love with Rosaline b. he has just met Juliet
c. he is deeply depressed for Rosaline does not love him.
21. What does Romeo mean when he says that Rosaline is a follower of Diana?
a. that she serves the goddess Diana and does not like men b. she is a gypsy
c. she is very religious and lives in a convent
22. What is Benvolio’s advice to Romeo?
a. try to woo Rosaline with sweet words of poetry b. he should concentrate on his studies instead c. forget about Rosaline by looking at other girls.
23. What does Paris want Lord Capulet to do?
a. to let him fight Romeo b. to let him fight Tybalt c. to let him marry Capulet’s daughter
24. What does Lord Capulet tell Paris?
a. to wait until Romeo is at the party and fight him there b. to let two summers wither in their prime before he marries Juliet c. to not fight Tybalt for he is the better swordsman.
25. How does Romeo find out about Capulet’s party?
a. he and Benvolio overhear Capulet mention that Rosaline will be at the party
b. he sees a large crowd of beautiful women enter Capulet’s villa.
c. an illiterate servant asks him to read the guest list for him.
26. What does Juliet’s mother wish to talk to her about?
a. to discuss the idea of marriage to Paris
b. to discuss the party she and her husband are throwing for Juliet
c. to discuss Juliet’s behavior with the nurse
27. Why is it dangerous for Romeo and Benvolio to crash the Capulets’ party?
a. Capulet considers them as low class and beneath his family
b. they are members of a rival family that the Capulets have been feuding with for years.
c. Capulet finds them annoying, silly, and immature
28. Who becomes enraged when he discovers the Montagues have crashed the party?
a. Lord Capulet
b. Lady Capulet
c. Tybalt
29. How does Romeo find out that Juliet is a Capulet?
a. Juliet warns him that she cannot love him for he is a Montague.
b. Benvolio warns him
c. the Nurse tells him
30. How does Juliet find out that Romeo is a Montague?
a. Rosaline tells her
b. Romeo tells her
c. the Nurse finds out and comes back and tells her
31. Does Romeo kiss Juliet the first time he sees her?
a. no, but he does dance with her.
b. Yes, but he does not dance with her.
c. Yes, and he dances with her as well.
32. What do Romeo and Juliet decide to do after spending the early morning hours talking?
a. for Romeo to go to the Friar to make wedding plans for them
b. to go the next morning to ask Capulet for his daughter’s hand in marriage
c. to meet tomorrow in the Friar’s cell
33. What is the Friar doing at dawn?
a. he is doing his morning prayers.
b. he is just waking up.
c. he is picking flowers and herbs to make medicines.
34. What is the Friar’s reaction when Romeo tells him what he wants him to do and why does the Friar feel that way?
a. he is happy and relieved because Romeo has found a better girl.
b. he is cautiously optimistic for this could be the end of the long bitter feud between the
two warring families.
c. he is annoyed and irritated because Romeo was madly in love with another girl just a
few hours ago.
35. Why does the Friar agree to Romeo’s request?
a. he wants Romeo to forget about Rosaline and be happy
b. he hopes this could end the long feud between the two families.
c. he just agrees so Romeo will leave him alone
36. Why does the Nurse go to see Romeo?
a. to find out if Romeo is serious about Juliet
b. to see for herself if he is an honorable young man
c. to find out if Romeo has made the wedding plans for today
d. both a, b, and c
37. What is Mercutio’s reaction when he sees the Nurse?
a. he likes her and begins to flirt with her.
b. he makes fun of her and call her an “old hoar hare” and a “lenten pie”
c. he is indifferent to her because he thinks Romeo is hiding something from him.
38. What does Romeo tell the Nurse?
a. to tell Juliet to find a way to go to the Friar’s at noon to be married
b. to meet his man behind the convent wall for the rope ladder Romeo will use to climb
to Juliet’s room for their wedding night.
c. both a and b
39. The scene in which the Friar is picking flowers and herbs to make medicine is an example of:
a. irony
b. simile
c. foreshadowing
40. Describe the relationship between Juliet and the Nurse:
a. funny, teasing, and loving - more like a mother/daughter relationship
b. a typical master and servant relationship
c. tense and ill at ease
41. Who knows that Romeo and Juliet are in love, let alone getting married?
a. Benvolio and Mercutio
b. Benvolio, Mercutio, the Nurse, and the Friar
c. the Nurse and the Friar
42. Why is Tybalt angry when he sees Mercurio and Benvolio?
a. he sent a letter challenging Romeo to a duel for crashing the Capulet party
b. he hates Mercutio and wants to fight him
c. Mercutio has been speaking ill of him and ridiculing him in front of his friends.
43. Where is Romeo returning from when he encounters Mercurio and Tybalt in the square?
a. Just back from the Friar’s, preparing for the wedding
b. Romeo is returning from his wedding to Juliet.
c. he is returning from speaking to the Nurse about the wedding.
44. Mercutio’s name might suggest that his temperament is like:
a. mercury, which is quickly changeable
b. that he is kind and patient
c. that he is a good swordsman
45. What are Mercutio and Tybalt’s reactions when Romeo arrives?
a. Tybalt begins to insult Romeo and Mercutio becomes enraged that Romeo does not fight back.
b. Tybalt and Mercutio are too busy fighting with each other to notice Romeo
c. Tybalt and Mercutio are joking with each other.
46. Why doesn’t Romeo defend himself against Tybalt?
a. he doesn’t like to fight
b. he has recently married Juliet and he and Tybalt are now family
c. he does defend himself
47. Why does Mercutio die?
a. Tybalt is the better swordsman and kills Mercutio in a duel.
b. He accidentally impales himself on Mercutio’s sword.
c. Romeo steps between them trying to stop their fight, and Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo’s arm.
48. How does Tybalt die?
a. Tybalt is killed by the Prince for killing his kinsman Mercurio
b. Benvolio kills him
c. Tybalt runs back to fight Romeo and Romeo kills him.
49. What is the Prince’s decision regarding Mercutio’s and Tybalt’s deaths?
a. that because Romeo killed Tybalt who had slain Mercurio, Romeo should only be banished.
b. Romeo should be executed on sight
50. What does the Friar decide to do to help the two newlyweds?
a. to help Romeo escape to Mantua
b. to wait until everything calms down and tell the parents about the wedding.
c. for Romeo to hide in the Friar’s cell until dark, then stay with Juliet for the night, and then leave before dawn for Mantua.
51. While Julie and Romeo are upstairs in her room consummating their marriage, what are Paris and the Capulets discussing?
a. Tybalt’s death
b. Lord Capulet offers Juliet’s hand in marriage to Paris on Thursday.
c. Lord Capulet offers Juliet’s hand in marriage to Paris on Wednesday.
52. After Romeo leaves, Lady Capulet enters Juliet’s room to do what?
a. to announce that she is being given away by her father in marriage to Paris on Thursday.
b. she is getting married on Wednesday to Paris!
53. What is Lord Capulet’s reaction when Juliet declines his offer? __________________
54. What advice does the Nurse give Juliet after her father leaves?
a. that she will find a way to help Juliet reunite with Romeo
b. to forget about Romeo because he is as good as dead and Paris is the better man.
c. to join a convent
55. What important decision does Juliet make after the Nurse leaves the room?
a. to never confide in the Nurse again.
b. to go to the Friar to see if he can help her escape from this marriage to Paris
c. If he cannot help her, then she will commit suicide.
d. all of the above
55.What plan does the Friar devise?
a. that she drink a potion that will make her appear dead for 42 hours.
b. that after her parents bury her, the Friar will summon Romeo to be there when she
wakes up and they will escape to Mantua to live until the Friar can tell the parents.
c. he suggests she goes to live in a convent
d. a and b are correct
57. What great idea does Lord Capulet come up with this time?
a. to move the marriage up to Wednesday
b. to move the marriage up to Tuesday
c. to move the marriage up to Monday
58. What are three things Juliet is terrified of before she drinks the potion:
1.____________________
2.____________________
3.____________________
59. Why didn’t Brother John carry the letter explaining the Friar’s plan to Romeo in Mantua?
a. There was a plague and Brother John was quarantined in a house which meant he couldn’t ride to Mantua.
b. He did go to Mantua but he couldn’t give the letter to Romeo.
c. Brother John gave the letter to the wrong person.
60. How does Romeo find out about Juliet’s “death”?
a. he finds out about it from the apothecary
b. Balthazar tells him.
61. What does Romeo decide to do?
a. to ride back to Verona to kill Lord Capulet and Paris
b. to buy poison and ride back to Verona where he will die next to Juliet
c. to buy poison, ride back to Verona and kill Paris
62. How does the play differ from the two films of Romeo and Juliet?
Your answer here:____________________________________________
63. How does Romeo die?
a. He stabs himself with a dagger
b. He shoots himself with a derringer
c. He swallows the fast acting poison
64. How soon after Romeo dies does Juliet awaken?
a. a few hours later when the Friar arrives
b. a few days later
c. a few moments later when the Friar arrives
65. What does the Friar suggest she do?
a. To go with him where he will put her in a convent for the rest of her life
b. To go with him to her parents so he can tell them what happened.
c. To go with him where he will hide her until he can explain everything.
66. What does Juliet decide to do?
a. to go with the Friar
b. she refuses to go with him.
c. she tries to drink Romeo’s poison but there is not enough, so she takes his dagger
and stabs herself.
67. What do the parents decide at the end?
a. each will build a beautiful golden statue of the other’s child
b. to forgive and forget the feud
c. both a and b
68. There is one more unexpected death at the end of the play. Who dies?
a. Lord Montague
b. the Nurse
c. Lady Montague
