romeo and Juliette quiz

Question 1

Why does Romeo refuse to fight Tybalt at the beginning of this scene?

Answer 1

because he has just married Juliet and is now his kinsmen (they are now related).

Question 2

Why does Mercutio choose to fight Tybalt in Romeo’s place?

Answer 2

because he can’t stand the fact that Romeo is not defending his masculine honour.

Question 3

Explain how Mercutio ends up getting stabbed.

Answer 3

Romeo tries to stop Mercutio and Tybalt from fighting and gets in between them.
Tybalt goes to stab Romeo but his sword goes through the empty space between his side and arm and into Mercutio’s gut.

Question 4

What does Mercutio mean when he says: “A plague o’ both your houses”?

Answer 4

Mercutio is putting a curse on both Romeo and Tybalt and their feuding families for what they have done to him.

Question 5

What are the two meanings of the following spoken by Mercutio? “Ask for me tomorrow, and/ you shall find me a grave man”?

Answer 5

Mercutio means that he will always be angry at Romeo and Tybalt for what putting him in the middle of their senseless family feud and that he will be dead in his grave before the day is over.

Question 6

Who does Romeo blame for his own refusal to fight Tybalt? Why?

Answer 6

Romeo blames Juliet for his refusal to fight Tybalt. He believes their love has made him too effeminate.

Question 7

Why does Romeo end up killing Tybalt after all?

Answer 7

Romeo kills Tybalt to prove that he is a man.

Question 8

What happens as a result of Romeo’s killing Tybalt?

Answer 8

The prince banishes him from Verona.

Question 9

Thoroughly identify and explain the various techniques in the following lines spoken by Juliet means: “…when he shall die,/ Take him and cut him out in little stars,/ And he will make the face of heaven so fine/ That all the world will be in love with night,/And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

Answer 9

1. It foreshadows Romeo’s death
2. the light and dark and celestial motif is present with references to the night, stars and sun.
3. there is a reference to a religious motif with the use of the word “worship”.
4. Romeo is referred to as the stars in the night sky which is a metaphor.
5. Juliet refers to herself as the “garish sun” which is another metaphor.

Question 10

Identify the poetic technique being used in the following: “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven! Wolfish-ravening lamb!”

Answer 10

oxymoron.

Question 11

Who is Juliet most devoted to?

Answer 11

Juliet is most devoted to Romeo.

Question 12

What is Romeo’s main concern regarding the fact he killed Tybalt? What does this say about him?

Answer 12

Romeo is concerned about what Juliet now thinks of him rather than what her mental state is. This shows his immaturity.

Question 13

What does friar Laurence mean when he says: “There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk”?

Answer 13

It is a reference to Romeo crying hysterically on the floor. His own tears are excessive and making matters worse. He is wallowing in self-pity.

Question 14

What does Romeo say his banishment is worse than?

Answer 14

than death.

Question 15

Identify the poetic technique in the following lines: “Not body’s death, but body’s banishment” Explain what makes you think so.

Answer 15

It is an alliteration because of the repetition of the “b” sound at the beginning of several words.

Question 16

As the nurse and friar try to get Romeo to control himself, what do they both question about him?

Answer 16

The Friar and nurse question Romeo’s manhood.

Question 17

Identify the poetic technique in the following lines: “Like powder in a skilless soldier’s flask, /Is set a-fire by thine own ignorance”. Explain what makes you think so.

Answer 17

It is a simile because a comparison is being made between Romeo’s immature behaviour and an unskilled soldier. His unmanly behavior is dangerous and reckless; he doesn’t know what he is doing and is capable of hurting himself and others just like an unskilled soldier

Question 18

What does the nurse give Romeo from Juliet?

Answer 18

a ring

Question 19

Explain the plan the friar comes up with in order to help Romeo and Juliet at this particular point in the play.

Answer 19

The friar’s plan is that Romeo will visit Juliet that night, leave Verona before morning, go to Mantua, and wait there until things blow over.

Question 20

What does this scene clearly show is consistently linked throughout the play?

Answer 20

The intensity of young love and suicidal impulses are consistently linked throughout the play.

Question 21

What makes Capulet change his mind about when Juliet is to marry Paris?

Answer 21

He believes it will get her over her depression over Tybalt’s death

Question 22

What technique is being used in the following: “Afore me! it is so very very late/ That we may call it early by and by”? Explain what makes you think so.

Answer 22

It is a paradox. It is so late in the evening it is almost morning.

Question 23

What theme is present in the following lines: “I think she will be ruled/ In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not”. Explain what makes you think so

Answer 23

It shows the theme of the individual versus society because Capulet is saying that he rules over his daughter and she is expected to obey him.

Question 24

How does Capulet react when Juliet says she will not marry Paris?

Answer 24

Capulet is furious when Juliet says she will not marry Paris; he vows to disown her.

Question 25

How does Lady Capulet react when Juliet asks her for help?

Answer 25

When Juliet asks her mother for help, Lady Capulet says listen to your father; don’t bother me.

Question 26

What does the nurse say to Juliet when she asks her for help?

Answer 26

she tells Juliet to marry Paris because he is the better man.

Question 27

dentify and thoroughly explain what poetic technique is being used in the following:
“For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, /Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, /Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs:/ Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them, / Without a sudden clam, will overset? Thy tempest-tossed body.”

Answer 27

1. Juliet’s eyes are the sea
2. Juliet is crying and her tears are being compared to the movement of waves.
3. Juliet’s body is compared to a piece of bark floating in the sea.
4. Salt flood is a reference to tears that taste salty and the salty sea.

Question 28

Identify two different poetic techniques used in the following: “Dry sorrow drinks our blood”?

Answer 28

Consonance and personification.

Question 29

Identify two different poetic techniques used in the following: “The air doth drizzle dew”

Answer 29

Alliteration and imagery.

Question 30

What is the “morning’s eye”?

Answer 30

The sun.

Question 31

Identify three different poetic techniques in the following: “Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops”.

Answer 31

Metaphor, personification and consonance.