This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > Romeo And Juliet > Romeo And Juliet – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romeo And Juliet Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does Lady Capulet plan to speak to Juliet about in the morning? A) Juliet's love for Romeo. B) Juliet's divorce from Romeo. C) Juliet's upcoming marriage to Paris. D) Juliet's love for Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juliet's upcoming marriage to Paris. 2. Romeo and Juliet marry in secret. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 3. How does Romeo learn of the Capulet party? A) He talks to his father. B) He reads the invitation for the servant because the servant cannot read. C) He was invited by Rosaline. D) He overhears a conversation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He reads the invitation for the servant because the servant cannot read. 4. Which word means NOT like someone or something else? A) Every. B) New. C) Safe. D) Different. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Different. 5. What kind of Irony is in the final scene (Romeo + Juliet death scene) A) Situational Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Verbal Irony. D) Super Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic Irony. 6. Romeo and Juliet primarily takes place in what setting? A) Rome, Italy. B) Paris, France. C) Mantua, Italy. D) Verona, Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verona, Italy. 7. What is the meaning of the Latin root-stress-? A) To draw tight. B) To loosen. C) To give. D) To return. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To draw tight. 8. Who told Romeo to be happy that Juliet is alive and that he is also alive? A) Benvolio. B) The Prince. C) Lord Montague. D) Friar Lawrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Friar Lawrence. 9. What is the literary term that allows the reader to learn about a character through their actions, conversations, and comparison to other characters? A) Direct characterization. B) Concordance. C) Indirect characterization. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indirect characterization. 10. What is the purpose of the prologue in Act II? A) It reviews what has occurred and what is to come next. B) It reminds us of the prologue before Act I. C) It provides the audience with an intermission. D) It gives the Chorus an introduction to the play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It reviews what has occurred and what is to come next. 11. A member of any of certain religious orders of men, especially the four mendicant orders A) Friar. B) Cruel. C) Minstrel. D) Wretched. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friar. 12. In Carlei's film adaptation, what reason does Juliet's father give for forcing her to marry Paris? A) Wants to raise the status of the Capulet family by marrying a nobleman. B) Want to have an heir to carry on the family name. C) Want to merge the businesses of two families. D) I want Juliet to have someone to take care of me. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Want to have an heir to carry on the family name. 13. Why does Paris talk to Lord Capulet? A) He is sad about Tybalt. B) He is upset about the fighting. C) He wants to marry Juliet. D) He wants to know what the Prince said. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wants to marry Juliet. 14. Which of the following situations best describes how someone might act if extremely distressed? A) He looked thoughtfully at the article, wondering what it meant for the city. B) She paced up and down the room, wringing her hands and crying softly to herself. C) She hummed to herself as she gathered her tools and set to work on her new project. D) He walked purposely along the street, confident he would be welcomed by his friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She paced up and down the room, wringing her hands and crying softly to herself. 15. Who did Romeo fall in love with at first? A) Lady Capulet. B) Rosaline. C) Mary. D) Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rosaline. 16. Tybalt is best characterized as A) Aggressive and quick to fight. B) Unable to keep a secret. C) A peacekeeper. D) Optimistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aggressive and quick to fight. 17. The belief that the actions and behavior of human beings is the personal choice of the person, not something that is controlled by fate or a divine being (ex:God) A) Free Will. B) Foreshadowing. C) Tragedy. D) Fate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Will. 18. Lord Capulet threatened to disown Juliet. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 19. What is NOT something Juliet thinks in her soliloquy? A) What is the purpose of a name. B) Where Romeo is now. C) That if he would give up his name she would be his. D) Why is Romeo a Montague. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where Romeo is now. 20. An enemy or opponent A) Oppression. B) Transgression. C) Pernicious. D) Adversary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adversary. 21. What does Romeo compare Juliet to when he first sees her at the party? A) The sun. B) The moon. C) A flower. D) A star. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sun. 22. To flaunt or wave A) Flourish. B) Posterity. C) Siege. D) Fray. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flourish. 23. A nearly 14 year old girl of the house of Capulet and encounters Romeo at the masquerade ball see and fall in love with him. A) Juliet. B) Lady Capulet. C) Rosaline. D) Nurse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juliet. 24. Which of the following is NOT true about the families? A) They are equal in social status and respect. B) They have been feuding for a long time. C) They refuse to make up, even after their children die. D) They 'mirror' each other in terms of family structure and set up. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They refuse to make up, even after their children die. 25. In Act 2, Scene 3, Friar Lawrence believes Romeo never went to bed because ..... A) He was fighting with Tybalt. B) He was hiding from his father. C) He was with Rosaline. D) He was partying with his friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was with Rosaline. 26. Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme A) Couplet. B) Aside. C) Pun. D) Set. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 27. Juliet says to her mother "I never shall be satisfied with Romeo, till I behold him ..... dead ..... " it is an example of ..... A) Double entendre. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Soliloquy. D) Verbal Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verbal Irony. 28. Who said: "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks:It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!" A) Friar Lawrence. B) Paris. C) Romeo. D) Probably. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romeo. 29. What message does Romeo give the Nurse to tell Juliet? A) That they will be married by Friar Lawrence. B) That they will not be married until the feud is over. C) That they cannot be together anymore. D) That he is in love with her and will do anything for her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That they will be married by Friar Lawrence. 30. Where does Romeo get the poison? A) He buys the poison from an apothecary in Verona. B) He buys the poison from an apothecary in Mantua. C) He makes the poison himself. D) He buys the poison from Balthasar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He buys the poison from an apothecary in Mantua. 31. Something that is harmful, like a feud might be described as ..... A) Piteous. B) Forswear. C) Civil. D) Pernicious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pernicious. 32. This is the dramatic genre (i.e. type of play) of Romeo and Juliet. A) Comedy. B) Tragedy. C) Musical. D) History. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 33. Whom did Lord Capulet arrange to marry Juliet? A) Probably. B) Benvolio. C) Paris. D) The Prince. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paris. 34. What happens to Friar Laurence's message for Romeo about Juliet's "death" ? (a) A) Friar Laurence never sent a message. B) Lord Capulet stops the message. C) A It never gets to Romeo. D) Juliet's potion didn't work. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A It never gets to Romeo. 35. True or False:The Capulet's party is open to the public A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 36. In Act V, why is F. Lawrence upset when he learns that F. John has not yet been to Mantua? A) He fears that the Prince may punish both him and Friar John. B) He fears that Friar John may have been exposed to the plague. C) He's irritated since John has failed before to deliver notes. D) He's fearful that failure to reach Romeo may cause disaster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He's fearful that failure to reach Romeo may cause disaster. 37. According to Mercutio, what is Tybalt really good at? A) Dancing. B) Sword fighting. C) Persuading people to do things for him. D) Getting out of trouble. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sword fighting. 38. Romeo was in love with this character at the beginning of the play. A) Juliet. B) Rosemary. C) Jessica. D) Rosaline. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rosaline. 39. How were the three levels of the Globe Theater organized? A) By class. B) By luck. C) By arrival time. D) By raffle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By class. 40. At the beginning of scene v, why do Romeo and Juliet discuss whether it is morning or not? A) Because they do not want to part ways. B) Because they are confused and don't know what time it is. C) Because they have forgotten what day it is. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because they do not want to part ways. 41. Which quotes show Lord Capulet deferring to Juliet's choice? A) "She is the hopeful Lady of my earth". B) "My will to her consent is but a part.". C) "And she agreed, within her scope of choice /Lies my consent, and fair according voice". D) "Like her most, whose merit most shall be". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "And she agreed, within her scope of choice /Lies my consent, and fair according voice". 42. Who says "then, window, let day in, and let life out" ? A) Friar Lawrence. B) Juliet. C) Nurse. D) Romeo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juliet. 43. Which of the following is when two characters with traits that mirror opposites? A) Dynamic character. B) Static character. C) Foil characters. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foil characters. 44. "O speak again bright angel" is an example of A) Simile. B) Antagonist. C) Metaphor. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 45. Who wanted to fight Romeo? A) Mercutio. B) Benvolio. C) Probably. D) Juliet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Probably. 46. How does Tybalt recognize Romeo at the party? A) A servant tells him Romeo is there. B) He recognizes his voice. C) He recognizes the Montague crest on his sword. D) He doesn't recognize Romeo at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He recognizes his voice. 47. Romeo's last name is A) Capulet. B) Montague. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Montague. 48. Which is written in iambic meter? A) In the night I heard an angel sing. B) Instead of going to the store, I went to sleep today. C) Always resting on the couch, I couldn't watch tv. D) Just the other day, I went to school with two lunches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Instead of going to the store, I went to sleep today. 49. "Two households, both alike in dignity." Choose the best definition for "dignity" as it is used above. A) Courage. B) Low rank, office or class. C) Elevated rank, office or class. D) Self-respect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elevated rank, office or class. 50. Who is Juliet's cousin? A) Probably. B) Benvolio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Probably. 51. Why doesn't Romeo get Friar Lawrence's letter? A) The letter is lost along the way. B) Balthazar ends up quarantined and cannot deliver it. C) Friar John ends up quarantined and cannot deliver it. D) Friar John's travel is delayed for unknown reasons. E) Balthazar is killed before he can deliver the letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Friar John ends up quarantined and cannot deliver it. 52. What was the name of Shakespeare's open-air theater where plays were performed? A) The Big House. B) The Globe. C) The Theatre. D) The Wells Fargo Center. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Globe. 53. Who said: "These violent delights have violent ends ..... " A) Juliet. B) Romeo. C) Nurse. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Friar. 54. What is the title of the story we are learning? (Hint:it's long, so you might fall asleep!) A) Romeo + Juliet. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) "Romeo & Juliet". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romeo and Juliet. 55. What does "bite my thumb at thee" mean? A) Chewing your finger. B) Cursing at someone. C) Giving a big 'ole thumbs up. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cursing at someone. 56. What does the Prince do in Act I? A) Joins in the fight. B) Locks up the servants for fighting. C) Punishes the servants with death. D) Stops the fight and threatens death if they fight again. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stops the fight and threatens death if they fight again. 57. What is the name of the two families fighting? A) Montague and Capulet. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) Montalet and Capugue. D) Mountain and Country. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Montague and Capulet. 58. At the end of scene ii, what does Juliet ask the nurse to do? A) Send a message to Romeo. B) Bring her Tybalt's body. C) Break things off with Romeo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Send a message to Romeo. 59. What insulting gesture is made at the beginning of the play? A) Flip off with the middle finger. B) The gesture of biting the thumb. C) A crude gesture pointed at someone's mother. D) The gesture of cutting the throat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The gesture of biting the thumb. 60. The epilogue happens ..... the play. A) Before. B) After. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After. Next →Related QuizzesClassics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRomeo And Juliet Quiz 2Romeo And Juliet Quiz 3Romeo And Juliet Quiz 4Romeo And Juliet Quiz 5Romeo And Juliet Quiz 6Romeo And Juliet Quiz 7Romeo And Juliet Quiz 8Romeo And Juliet Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books