Romeo and Juliet Final Test: Whole-Play Quiz

Romeo and Juliet Whole Play questions

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

1. 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
2. How does the feud between the two houses first appear on stage?
   Tybalt challenges Romeo during the ball · Capulet and Montague fight in person · Servants of both houses brawl in the street · The Prince reads out a new edict aloud
3. On his way to the Capulet ball, what misgiving does Romeo voice?
   That Mercutio will start a quarrel there · That Rosaline will refuse him again · That Tybalt will know him by his voice · That the night's outcome hangs in the stars
4. What does Friar Laurence hope to gain by marrying Romeo and Juliet in secret?
   To turn the two houses' hatred into love · To rescue Juliet from her father's house · To win himself favour with the Prince · To keep Romeo from pursuing Rosaline
5. Waiting in his cell for Juliet, what warning does the Friar give Romeo about such sudden joy?
   That Juliet's father will never relent · That violent delights have violent ends · That Rosaline will hear of the match · That the Prince's edict still stands
6. 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
7. Standing over Tybalt's body, Romeo calls himself fortune's fool. What does he mean?
   That the Friar misread the stars for him · That he trusted Mercutio's wit too far · That he gambled away his inheritance · That chance has made a plaything of him
8. 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
9. What word does the Nurse bring back to Juliet after meeting Romeo in the street?
   That he must leave Verona before dawn · To come to the Friar's cell and be married · To wait at her window until nightfall · That he will ask her father outright
10. How does the Prince apportion blame when the dead are laid out in the churchyard?
    He holds the Friar alone to account · He lays the whole fault on the Capulets · He says that everyone has been punished · He says Romeo's exile was too lenient

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