Romeo and Juliet Language & structure Quiz
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare · 9 multiple-choice questions with answers · about 7 min
Test your knowledge of Romeo and Juliet with 9 language & structure questions with answers and explanations — word choice, imagery, narration and how the work is built. Ideal for revision once you have read the whole play.
Word choice, imagery, narration and how the work is built. Drawn from the whole play — contains spoilers.
Skills tested: Structure, Language · Difficulty: Easy, Challenge, Standard
The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.
- What does the Chorus tell the audience about the lovers before any action begins?
That their deaths will end the quarrel · That a prince will forbid their marriage · That they will be parted and never meet · That one house will drive out the other
- Romeo says a dream has warned him against going to the ball. What is Mercutio's Queen Mab speech arguing?
That Rosaline will relent before morning · That fairies decide which matches prosper · That dreams are idle inventions of the brain · That the feud is a game for children
- Standing in the Capulet orchard, what does Romeo compare Juliet to when she appears at the window?
The moon above the orchard · The sun rising in the east · A lamp carried through a hall · A star loosed from its sphere
- 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
- Juliet returns home and kneels in apparent obedience. What does Capulet then change?
He brings the wedding forward a day · He asks the Prince to give her away · He puts the wedding back to Monday · He moves it from church to his hall
- How does Capulet describe his daughter when the household finds her seemingly dead?
As a star gone out of the heavens · As a candle blown out before dawn · As a bird fallen out of the nest · As a flower killed by untimely frost
- In what verse form does the Chorus deliver the Prologue?
A ballad in four-line stanzas · A fourteen-line sonnet · A soliloquy in blank verse · A prose address to the house
- What is the immediate consequence of Mercutio's death for the shape of the play?
The Friar reveals the secret marriage · The Prince pardons both the houses · Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished · Capulet delays the match with Paris
- At dawn after their wedding night, what do Romeo and Juliet disagree about?
Whether the bird they hear is lark or nightingale · Whether to wake her mother and confess all · Whether Juliet should flee to Mantua with him · Whether to tell the Nurse about the Friar's plan
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