Romeo and Juliet Literature Quiz

Romeo and Juliet Quiz

Key Quotations

• "What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!" (Romeo, Act 2, Scene 2) - Romeo's famous declaration of love for Juliet
• "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" (Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2) - Juliet's lament about Romeo's absence
• "A plague o' both your houses!" (Mercutio, Act 3, Scene 1) - Mercutio's curse on the feuding families

Key Characters

• Romeo Montague: Impulsive and passionate young lover, falls in love with Juliet at a ball
• Juliet Capulet: Beautiful and determined young woman, daughter of the Capulets
• Lord and Lady Capulet: Juliet's parents, who want her to marry Paris
• Tybalt: Juliet's cousin, hates the Montagues and seeks to fight them
• Friar Lawrence: Wise and understanding priest, who marries Romeo and Juliet in secret

Plot

• The story begins with a fight between the Montagues and Capulets, two rival families in Verona
• Romeo falls in love with Rosaline, but then meets Juliet at a ball and falls in love with her
• Romeo and Juliet marry in secret, with Friar Lawrence's help
• Mercutio is killed in a fight with Tybalt, leading to Romeo's revenge and banishment
• Juliet fakes her own death to avoid marrying Paris, but Romeo believes she is really dead and poisons himself in her tomb
• Juliet awakens to find Romeo dead and stabs herself to join him in death

Key Characters

• Romeo Montague: impulsive and passionate lover, from House of Montague
• Juliet Capulet: beautiful and determined daughter, from House of Capulet
• Tybalt: Juliet's cousin, fierce and aggressive, from House of Capulet
• Friar Lawrence: wise and understanding priest, hopes to end feud through marriage
• Lord and Lady Capulet: Juliet's parents, strict and traditional
• Mercutio: Romeo's friend, lively and witty, from House of Montague

Key Quotations

• "What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet" (Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)
• "Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" (Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)
• "O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circled orb, / Lest that thy love prove likewise variable" (Romeo, Act 2, Scene 2)
• "A plague o' both your houses!" (Mercutio, Act 3, Scene 1)

General Plot

• Feuding families, Montagues and Capulets, in Verona, Italy
• Romeo falls in love with Rosaline, but ultimately falls for Juliet at a ball
• Romeo and Juliet secretly marry, with help from Friar Lawrence
• Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel, Mercutio dies, and Romeo kills Tybalt
• Juliet fakes her own death to avoid marrying another, but Romeo believes she's really dead
• Romeo poisons himself in Juliet's tomb, and Juliet awakens to find him dead
• Juliet stabs herself with Romeo's dagger to join him in death