Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Quiz (Act III)

Romeo and Juliet Act 3 questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. What does Mercutio repeat as he is led away wounded?
   A prayer for Romeo's safety · A plea for the Prince's justice · A plague on both the houses · A curse on Tybalt alone
2. Why does Romeo refuse Tybalt's challenge before Mercutio steps in?
   He knows Tybalt is the better swordsman · He has promised the Friar to carry no sword · The Prince has banished duelling that week · Tybalt is now his kinsman by marriage
3. How does Juliet speak of Romeo in the moments after she learns he has killed Tybalt?
   In contradictions: a fiend with an angel's face · In plain speech, refusing all figures at all · In the pilgrim images of their first meeting · In riddles she asks the Nurse to unravel
4. How does Capulet answer Juliet when she says she will not marry Paris?
   He asks the Nurse to reason with her · He threatens to turn her out of doors · He agrees if she will see Paris once · He puts the wedding off for a month
5. What does the Nurse advise once Capulet has stormed out of Juliet's chamber?
   That she should follow Romeo to Mantua · That she should say nothing until Thursday · That Juliet should marry Paris after all · That she should beg her mother to help

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Original questions written for Pagine. Quotations are from the public-domain text.