Romeo and Juliet TEST Flashcards
Who recognizes Romeo at the Capulet’s feast?
Tybalt
Queen mab is a celtic name for the Quen of what?
Fairies
When Juliet was asked by her mother - How does she feel about marriage - what is her response?
It is an honor, but she isn’t interest in it
Who asks Capulet for Juliet’s hand in marriage?
Paris
How does Sampson starts a fight with Montague servants?
Biting his thunb
What is the setting of the play?
Verona, Italy
Who does Romeo dance with at the Capulet Feast?
No one
How does Benvolio suggest Romeo get over Rosaline?
By looking for another woman
In Scene 2 - how is the servingman labeled - even though he is not one?
A clown
At Capulet’s feast what do all the guest wear?
A mask
At the beginning of Act 2 - What is Mercutio is affectionately insulting Romeo about?
His love for Rosaline
Where does Romeo find Juliet in Act 2?
On her balcony outside of her bedroom
In Act 2 - Friar Lawrence’s comments to himself about good and evil are for what purpose?
To foreshadow future events
Mercutio and Romeo have a bat5tle of what?
Word Play
What is the weather like at the beginning of Act 3 right before the BIG fight?
Hot
Who kills Mercution?
Tybalt
Who does Capulet say Juliet will marry?
Paris
What does the nurse give Romeo?
A ring
Who knocks on the door of Friar Lawrence’s cell?
The Nurse
Where does Romeo hide after he killed Tybalt?
A Friar Lawrence’s cell
What does the nurse bring Juliet in Act 3?
A rope ladder
What changes does Capulet make to the wedding day?
He moves it up to Wednesday
What does Friar give to Juliet?
A vial
How does Juliet feel about marrying Paris?
She would rather kill herself
What does Paris ask Friar Lawrence to do?
Perform the wedding ceremony
What does Juliet say she will do if Friar Lawrence can’t help her?
Kill herself
What bird does Juliet say she hears when Romeo say it is time for him to leave?
nightingale
What day does Capulet ORIGINALLY say is the wedding day?
Thursday
Who does Friar plan to write a letter to?
Romeo
What is the propose of Romeo’s dream?
To foreshadows future events
What really happens to Juliet when she takes the potion?
She is put into a coma
Who objects to the wedding changes?
Lady Capulet
What type of dinner has the wedding feast turned into?
A funeral dinner
Who is the first one to find Juliet “dead”?
The nurse
What time is Paris coming to the Capulet house for the wedding?
At dawn
How does Romeo kill himself?
Takes the poison
Who does Romeo fight and kill in Act 5 ?
Paris
What does Friar Lawrence send Friar John to get?
A crow bar
Who was supposed to deliver the letter to Romeo but wasn’t able to deliver it?
Friar John
What is an apothecary?
One who makes potions
Who does Romeo say he is going to see right away after he hears of Juliet’s death?
An apothecary
What news does Balthasar bring to Romeo?
That Juliet is dead
When Juliet wakes - what does she decide to do?
Kill herself
What does “unhappy fortune” mean?
Bad luck
Who said:
“My only love strung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.”
Juliet
Who said:
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny they father and refuse they name.”
Juliet
Who said:
“Your plantain-leaf is excellent for that . . . for you broken shin.”
Romeo
Who said:
“When the devout religion of mine eye maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires; and these (Romeo’s eye’s), who often drown’d could never die, transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!”
Romeo
Who said:
“Or, if I live, is it not very like, the horrible conceit of death and night, together with the terror of the place.”
Juliet
Who said:
“They face is mine, and thou hast slander’d it.”
Paris
Who said:
“Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say ‘death’ for exile hath more terror in his look, much more than death: do not say ‘banishment’.”
Romeo
Who said:
“Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting.”
Romeo
Who said:
“Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day; it was the nightingale, and not the lark, that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.”
Juliet
Who said:
“These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and ponder, which as they kiss consume.”
Friar Lawrence
Who said:
“Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight: it is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; too like the lightning, which doth ceases to be ere once can say it lightens.”
Juliet
Who said:
“I will kiss thy lips; haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative.”
Juliet
Who said:
“If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.”
Paris
Who said:
“Well, Juliet, I will lie with then tonight, let’s see for means: O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! I do remember an apothecary.”
Romeo
Who said:
“Peace, ho for shame! Confusion’s cure live not in these confusions. Heaven and yourself had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all, and all the better is it for the maid.”
Friar Lawrence
Who is Queen Mab? What is the purpose of Mercutio’s speech about Queen Mab?
The Queen of the Fairies
To show that Romeo is being sill by relying on dreams - dreams are unreliable and unrealistic
What type of poem is the prologue? What is it about? What purpose does it serve?
A sonnett
It introduces the play and tells the story of Romeo and Juliet Give an explanation of what the play is about.
What does it mean to be “star cross’d lovers?” What does this have to do with the major theme of the play?
Elizabethans believed the stars influenced people’s destinies our fate.
Theme: Fate and destiny can control life. Romeo and Juliet’s love is written in the stars - and so is their death.
How do Romeo and Juliet both feel about each other after they each discover what family the other one is from?
They are upset because they have fallen in love with their mortal enemy - - but it is too late to “take it back” because they are both already in love with each other.
To prove his love to Juliet, what does Romeo try to swear by? Why does Juliet tell him not to swear by this?
The moon
The moon is constantly changing - it is not constant
So will his love change?
Throughout Act 2 - Juliet and Romeo appear together in 2 scenes. How do the two of them react differently about their love? Specifically, how does Romeo act and how does Juliet act?
Romeo - - he is all lovey dovey - unrealistic about their love and their chances of being together - he is in dreamland
Juliet - - She is more grounded, she is asking realist questions about their families, she is more cautious and is afraid of their families
How does Friar Lawrence feel about Romeo and Juliet’s marriage? Why is he okay with leading the ceremony?
Feels Romeo is moving way too quickly from Rosaline to Juliet
He thinks that this is just a fleeting crush
He agrees to marry them because he is hoping their marriage will end the family feud
During the balcony scene, what two feeling is Juliet torn between?
Her love for Romeo and her families feud (her hate for the Montagues
Describe the fight scene. Who wants to fight whom? Who actually fights whom? And who kills whom?
Tybalt wants to fight Romeo for coming to the Capulet Feast
Mercutio steps in to fight Tybalt
Romeo steps in between them to stop the fight
Tybalt strikes Mercutio - killing him
Romeo gests mad and stabs Tybalt - killing him
What emotions does Juliet go through when she finds out that Romeo killed Tybalt?
At first she is angry - Romeo killed her cousin. She feels she has been deceived by him.
Then she feels sad for Romeo - she is his wife and shouldn’t speak ill of him. She should be supporting him
How does Romeo feel about being banished and how does Friar lawrence respond?
Romeo feels that banishment is worse than death. He would rather die than be away from Juliet his wife.
Friar Lawrence feels that it is a sin - - he is alive and he is acting ungrateful
When Paris asks Capulet again for Juliet’s hand in marriage, how does he respond this time?
He says Juliet WILL marry him - without her consent. HE was going to make the arrangements
How does Paris treat Juliet in Act 4 at Friar Lawrence’s cell? What has he skipped doing?
Like he owns her. He thinks that wooing her is by telling her over and over that she is HIS. He is obnoxious. He has skipped all the wooing and courting of her.
Describe Friar Lawrence’s plan to get Juliet out of marrying Paris?
Give her a potion that will make it look like she is dead.
The family will find her and call off the wedding
Friar will keep her body and write to Romeo about the plan
Romeo will come - and when Juliet wakes up they will BOTH go to live in Mantua
What does Juliet fear about taking the potion?
1) It might kill her
2) Won’t work and she will have to marry Paris
3) She will wake up too soon and will be stuck with dead bodies and she will go crazy
What objections does Friar Lawrence raise to the wedding when talking to Paris?
1) Too soon after the death of Tybalt
2) He has just met Juliet and they need some time to get to know each other
3) Has he asked Juliet how she feels about the marriage and does she want to get married
Describe the turn of events that happen between
Romeo and Juliet in Act 5, beginning with Juliet lying in the tomb in a coma and ending with both of their deaths.
1) Juliet is in a coma
2) Romeo kills himself with the poison
3) Juliet wakes up - sees Romeo is dead
4) Juliet kisses Romeo - hoping there is still some poison on his lips to kill her
5) She used a dagger to kill herself
If fate had not come into play - what two characters could have saved Romeo and Juliet’s lives and how?
Friar Lawrence - - it took him too long to go to the cemetery to warn Romeo
Friar John - - he was not able to deliver the letter to Romeo about the plan due to being quaranteed
How does Romeo treat Paris when he asks Romeo to lay his body next to Juliet’s?
He understands Paris’ love for Juliet and he is not jealous. He agrees to lay Paris next to Juliet
Often time - something good comes from something bad. Like Friar Lawrence told us earlier in the play. What is that something good and what is that something bad that resolves the conflict of the play?
Good - - The families agree to end the feud - and they build a statue to their children
Bad - - Both Romeo and Juliet are dead
