Romeo and Juliet Test

Question 1

flood

Answer 1

inundate

Question 2

romeo’s best friend

Answer 2

mercutio

Question 3

who is romeo’s cousin

Answer 3

benvolio

Question 4

where does the story take place

Answer 4

verona

Question 5

ultimately, why did romeo and juliet kill themselves?

Answer 5

love

Question 6

determined

Answer 6

resolute

Question 7

romeo belongs to what family

Answer 7

montague

Question 8

how did juliet kill herself

Answer 8

dagger

Question 9

who was juliet’s confident

Answer 9

the nurse

Question 10

who told romeo that juliet was ‘dead’

Answer 10

balthasar

Question 11

juliet’s cousin

Answer 11

tybalt

Question 12

harsh

Answer 12

stark

Question 13

animosity

Answer 13

rancor

Question 14

destructive

Answer 14

baleful

Question 15

a plea

Answer 15

entreaty

Question 16

juliet belongs to what family

Answer 16

capulet

Question 17

how did romeo kill himself

Answer 17

poison

Question 18

what did mercutio say would be on both families

Answer 18

a curse

Question 19

where did the party take place

Answer 19

capulet mansion

Question 20

who was the authority figure

Answer 20

prince

Question 21

where did romeo and juliet meet

Answer 21

at a party

Question 22

the prince said that both families were what

Answer 22

punished

Question 23

deeply thoughtful

Answer 23

pensive

Question 24

who was romeo in love with before he met juliet

Answer 24

rosaline

Question 25

to rest

Answer 25

repose

Question 26

scold

Answer 26

chide

Question 27

who is juliet supposed to marry

Answer 27

paris

Question 28

to forget

Answer 28

forsake

Question 29

who married romeo and juliet

Answer 29

friar lawrence

Question 30

who wrote romeo and juliet

Answer 30

shakespeare

Question 31

where did romeo flee to

Answer 31

mantua

Question 32

knock-knock jokes are attributed to who

Answer 32

shakespeare

Question 33

when was he born

Answer 33

april, 23, 1564

Question 34

where did he grow up

Answer 34

startford-upon-avon

Question 35

who were king and queen during shakespeare 's time

Answer 35

Queen Elizabeth and King James

Question 36

Who had a profound impact on Shakespeare's writing?

Answer 36

Elizabeth

Question 37

who was Christopher Marlowe

Answer 37

author same time as shakespeare

Question 38

what is the name of Shakespeare's theatre

Answer 38

the globe

Question 39

what are the various divisions of literature written by shakespeare

Answer 39

comedy, tragedy, history

Question 40

Twelfth Night, Midsummers night's dream, merchants of venice, the taming of the shrew are all what type of Shakespearean division

Answer 40

comedy

Question 41

romeo and juliet, macbeth, othello, hamlet are what type of Shakespearean division

Answer 41

tragedy

Question 42

kings richard and james is what type of Shakespearean division

Answer 42

history

Question 43

What type of literary style did shakespear write in

Answer 43

iambic pentameter

Question 44

how many syllables in a line of iambic pentameter

Answer 44

10

Question 45

how many beats in a line of iambic pentameter

Answer 45

5

Question 46

how many lines does a sonnet have

Answer 46

14

Question 47

how many quatrains are in a sonnet

Answer 47

3

Question 48

what does a sonnet end with

Answer 48

couplet

Question 49

An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud by oneself or regardless of any hearers

Answer 49

Soliloquy

Question 49

what's a couplet

Answer 49

a 2 lined poem where the last words rhyme with each other