Romeo and Juliet Rocketbook Questions

Act One Scene One

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What does Lord Capulet call for? How

5. What is event four?

6. What is event five?

7. What is event six?

8. What is event seven?

9. What does Benvolio’s name mean?

10. How is Romeo described?

11. Pop Quiz #1

12. Pop Quiz #2

13. Pop Quiz #3

Act One Scene Two

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. Who is Paris?

6. What is a major theme of the play?

7. What is the purpose of the “Illiterate Servant”?

8. What does the “illiterate servant” also illustrate?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act One Scene Three

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What does the nurse’s relationship with Juliet contrast?

5. What do the nurse’s sexual references anticipate?

6. What notion of love does Juliet express?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Act One Scene Four

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What do the masques act as a metaphor for?

5. How is Mercutio described?

6. What does the "Queen Mab Tirade" suggest?

7. How is Mercutio's view of reality described?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act One Scene Five

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is event six?

7. How is Tybalt described?

8. What theme does Capulet's intervention reiterate?

9. Which character serves as a conduit between Romeo and Juliet?

10. Pop Quiz #1

11. Pop Quiz #2

12. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two Scene One

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. Describe Mercutio's view of love.

4. What does Romeo scaling the wall symbolize?

5. What does Romeo want to surround himself with?

6. How does Romeo view Juliet?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two Scene Two

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. Which scene is one of the most identifiable texts in the history of theater?

6. What is a recurring motif in Romeo and Juliet?

7. What identification can't the power of Romeo and Juliet's love remove?

8. What do Romeo and Juliet operate at different levels of?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two Scene Three

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What does Friar Lawrence represent?

5. What does Friar Lawrence illustrate about plants?

6. Friar Lawrence is like a father to whom?

7. What will Friar Lawrence eventually assist in

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two Scene Four

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. How is Romeo described when he is around his friends?

7. What does Mercutio condemn Romeo for?

8. What does Benvolio and Mercutio's ignorance of Romeo's new love illustrate?

9. What do the references to time add to?

10. What does Tybalt's challenge reinsert?

11. What two parts of "The Plan" does the nurse agree to?

12. Pop Quiz #1

13. Pop Quiz #2

14. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two Scene Five

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What does Juliet's soliloquy emphasize?

5. How does The Nurse build tension within the scene?

6. Pop Quiz #1

7. Pop Quiz #2

8. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two Scene Six

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What does Friar Lawrence foreshadow?

4. What are images of "joy in wedlock" repeatedly paired with?

5. Pop Quiz #1

6. Pop Quiz #2

7. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene One

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is event six?

7. "Love and Affection" are replaced by what in the play?

8. What does Shakespeare juxtapose the marriage scene with?

9. Who was able to predict the brawl before it happened?

10. Who does Romeo blame for Mercutio's death?

11. Which character shows up and restores order?

12. What does Prince Escalus unknowingly tear apart by banishing Romeo?

13. Pop Quiz #1

14. Pop Quiz #2

15. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene Two

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is Juliet unaware of in this scene?

6. Explain how "Night and Day Imagery" is used in Romeo and Juliet?

7. What is Juliet's love more powerful than?

8. What does Juliet feel she must do after she thinks that Romeo is dead?

9. What is a recurring theme in the play?

10. Pop Quiz #1

11. Pop Quiz #2

12. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene Three

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. How is Romeo's reaction different than Juliet?

6. What does Romeo feel that banishment is worse than?

7. What three things has Romeo and Juliet's love consumed?

8. Although they do not follow the advice of their elders, whose plan do they agree to follow?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene Four

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What two things must the lovers now endure?

4. What conflict has Capulet reproduced?

5. What is Capulet seeking by giving Juliet to Paris?

6. Pop Quiz #1

7. Pop Quiz #2

8. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene Five

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What does the singing of the lark symbolize?

7. What is Juliet aware of?

8. What does the coldness between Juliet and Lady Capulet starkly contrast?

9. What does Lady Capulet not realize?

10. What does Capulet believe is more valuable than Juliet's wishes?

11. How does the nurse fail Juliet?

12. Pop Quiz #1

13. Pop Quiz #2

14. Pop Quiz #3

Act Four Scene 1

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What does Friar Laurence create for the lovers?

6. What does Friar Laurence produce in order to preserve life?

7. How is Paris described?

8. What is Paris oblivious to?

9. What does Juliet view Paris as?

10. What does Juliet demonstrate?

11. The Friar's plan turns into an instrument of what for Juliet?

12. Pop Quiz #1

13. Pop Quiz #2

14. Pop Quiz #3

Act Four Scene 2

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What does Capulet misread?

4. What event is moved one day sooner?

5. Due to the fact that Juliet must take the potion one day sooner, what does the Friar have less time to do?

6. What does Capulet not respect?

7. Who does Capulet dominate?

8. What conflict can be seen between Juliet and Lady Capulet?

9. What does Juliet pretend to do? What is she actually preparing for?

10. What does Juliet put absolute trust in?

11. Pop Quiz #1

12. Pop Quiz #2

13. Pop Quiz #3

Act Four Scene 3

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What does Juliet show? What has she become?

4. What is Juliet forced to contemplate at the young age of thirteen?

5. In addition to having the fears of a child, what does Juliet show the composure of?

6. Juliet acts decisively and does what?

7. What does Juliet willingly take responsibility for?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Four Scene 4

1. What is event one?

2. How is the Capulet household described?

3. How is tension broken?

4. Pop Quiz #1

5. Pop Quiz #2

6. Pop Quiz #3

Act 5 Scene 1

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is Romeo's positive disposition a stark contrast to?

5. What did not reach Romeo?

6. Who is Romeo determined to join in death?

7. Who sells Romeo poison?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act 5 Scene 2

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What does Friar John never reach?

4. What does Friar Lawrence have a growing feeling of?

5. Pop Quiz #1

6. Pop Quiz #2

7. Pop Quiz #3

Act 5 Scene 3

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is event six?

7. What is event seven?

8. What happens to Paris?

9. What does Romeo do moments before Juliet awakes?

10. Who arrives a few moments too late?

11. What emerges as the greatest enemy in the story?

12. What causes Romeo to fight without fear?

13. What does Paris die without knowing of?

14. How does Juliet kill herself?

15. Pop Quiz #1

16. Pop Quiz #2

17. Pop Quiz #3