Romeo and Juliet Quiz

Act 5
Scene 1:
1. What news does Balthasar bring Romeo?

2. What does Balthasar’s news prompt Romeo to do?

Scene 2:
3. Why was Friar John not able to deliver the message to Romeo?

4. After hearing this news from Friar John, what does Friar Lawrence
intend to do?

Scene 3:
5. Why is Paris at Juliet’s tomb?

6. Why does Paris think that Romeo has come to the tomb?

7. Romeo gives Balthasar two reasons for entering the Capulet’s tomb.
What are those two reasons?

8. Romeo tells Paris he has come to the vault armed to commit

violence against who?

9. Why doesn’t Friar Laurence stay in the tomb with Juliet after she
awakens?

10. Why does Juliet kiss Romeo after he is dead?

11. When Lord Montague first arrives on the scene, what does he tell
those gathered?

12. What information does Romeo’s letter give?

13. How do Montague and Capulet plan to honor the memories of their
children?
QUOTES
14. Put this in any liquid thing you will and drink it off, and if
you had the strength of twenty men, it would dispatch you
straight.
a. Who is speaking?

b. Who is being spoken to?

15. Suspecting that we both were in a house where the

infectious pestilence did reign, sealed up the doors, and
would not let us forth, so that my speed to Mantua was
stayed.
a. Who is speaking?

b. Who is being spoken to?

16. Put not another sin upon my head… For I come hither
armed against myself.
a. Who is speaking?

b. Who is being spoken to?

17. O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I
die.
a. Who is speaking?

b. Who is being spoken to?

18. Yea noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy
sheath; there rust, and let me die.
a. Who is speaking?

19. Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight! Grief of my son’s

exile hath stopped her breath.
a. Who is speaking?

b. Who is being spoken to?

20. For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and
her Romeo.
a. Who is speaking?