SparkNotes: Romeo and Juliet: Quiz

1. To which city does Romeo go after being exiled from Verona?

(A) Padua

(B) Rome

(C) Venice

(D) Mantua

2. Why is Romeo exiled?

(A) For killing Tybalt

(B) For marrying Juliet against her father’s will

(C) For killing Mercutio

(D) For publicly admitting his atheism

3. Who performs Romeo and Juliet’s marriage?

(A) Friar John

(B) Friar Lawrence

(C) Father Vincentio

(D) Mercutio

4. Who is the fairy that Mercutio says visits Romeo in dreams?

(A) Puck

(B) Queen Mab

(C) Beelzebub

(D) Jack o’ the Clover

5. What does the Nurse advise Juliet to do after Romeo is exiled?

(A) Follow her husband to Mantua

(B) Wait for Romeo in Verona

(C) Act as if Romeo is dead and marry Paris

(D) Commit suicide

6. Where do Romeo and Juliet meet?

(A) At Capulet’s feast

(B) At Friar Lawrence’s cell

(C) At Montague’s feast

(D) At the pier from which Malvolio is departing for Spain

7. Who kills Mercutio?

(A) Benvolio

(B) Sampson

(C) Romeo

(D) Tybalt

8. Which character first persuades Romeo to attend the feast?

(A) Mercutio

(B) Benvolio

(C) Lady Montague

(D) Juliet

9. What, at first, does Juliet claim that Romeo hears the morning after their wedding night?

(A) The owl

(B) The dove

(C) The nightingale

(D) The lark

10. To what does Romeo first compare Juliet during the balcony scene?

(A) The moon

(B) The stars

(C) A summer’s day

(D) The morning sun

11. Who discovers Juliet after she takes Friar Lawrence’s potion?

(A) Lady Capulet

(B) Capulet

(C) Paris

(D) The Nurse

12. Who proposes that a gold statue of Juliet be built in Verona?

(A) Montague

(B) Lady Capulet

(C) Paris

(D) Romeo

13. To which powerful figure is Paris related?

(A) Capulet

(B) Montague

(C) Prince Escalus

(D) King Vardamo

14. How and where does Romeo commit suicide?

(A) With a dagger in the orchard

(B) With a rope in the public square

(C) With a sword in Juliet’s bedchamber

(D) With poison in Juliet’s tomb

15. Who is the last person to see Juliet before she stabs herself dead?

(A) Paris

(B) Friar Lawrence

(C) Tybalt

(D) Romeo

16. Why is Friar John unable to deliver Friar Lawrence’s message to Romeo in Mantua?

(A) He is killed by a Capulet servant

(B) He is attacked by bandits on the road

(C) He is held inside a quarantined house, and is unable to leave

(D) Romeo is stopped in Padua and never makes it to Mantua

17. Why does the Apothecary agree to sell Romeo poison?

(A) He is poor, and needs the money

(B) He can see that Romeo is passionate

(C) He is afraid that Romeo will hurt him if he refuses

(D) He is a friend of Friar Lawrence

18. On what day do Romeo and Juliet meet?

(A) Saturday

(B) Tuesday

(C) Sunday

(D) Wednesday

19. With whom is Romeo madly in love for the first two scenes of the play?

(A) Himself

(B) Mercutio

(C) Juliet

(D) Rosaline

20. In what decade was Romeo and Juliet written?

(A) 1570s

(B) 1600s

(C) 1610s

(D) 1590s

21. Whom does Mercutio curse as he lies dying after a duel?

(A) The Montagues and Capulets

(B) Romeo

(C) Tybalt

(D) Romeo and Tybalt

22. In what area is Friar Lawrence an expert?

(A) Roman history

(B) Languages

(C) Plants and herbs

(D) Swordfighting

23. What term does the Chorus use to describe the lovers?

(A) ill-fated

(B) death-doom’d

(C) demon-haunted

(D) star-crossed

24. Why does Tybalt first challenge Romeo to a duel?

(A) He is offended that Romeo loves his cousin

(B) He is offended that Romeo shows up at the Capulet ball

(C) He is offended that Romeo bites his thumb at him

(D) Tybalt does not challenge Romeo to a duel; he challenges Mercutio

25. In what year did Shakespeare die?

(A) 1610

(B) 1594

(C) 1601

(D) 1616