Romeo and Juliet Questions and
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What city does the play take place? ✔✔Verona
Who are the families fighting? ✔✔The Montagues and the Capulets
Why are the Montagues and the Capulets fighting? ✔✔An ancient grudge, probably bc of land
and power
What does the prologue say is the only thing that will end their parents' rage? ✔✔That 2 children
from both families one from the Capulets and one from the Montagues fall in love but would kill
themselves
What is the purpose of the prologue? ✔✔To hook the reader
What type of poem is the prologue? ✔✔A sonnet
What does Shakespeare do to highlight important parts in the plot? ✔✔He writes it as a sonnet
,What is the exposition of Romeo and Juliet? ✔✔Prologue and Act 1
Who started the fight in Act 1 Scene 1? ✔✔Sampson a Capulet
Who is Sampson? ✔✔A servant of Capulet
Who is Romeo? ✔✔Son of Montague
Who is Benvolio? ✔✔Romeos friend and nephew of Montague
Who is Balthasar? ✔✔Servant of Montague
Who is Abram? ✔✔Servant of Montague
Who is Juliet? ✔✔Daughter of Capulet
, Who is Tybalt? ✔✔Nephew of Lady Capulet, a great but violent swordsman
Who is Peter? ✔✔Juliet's nurses servant
Who is Gregory? ✔✔The Capulets servant
Who is Prince Escalus? ✔✔Ruler of Verona
Who is Mercutio? ✔✔Friend of Romeo, and relative of the Prince, he is a bit wild and funny,
and a bit paranoid
What is a Friar? ✔✔A Franciscan priest
Who is Count Paris? ✔✔A young nobleman who is related to the Prince
What is the rising Action? ✔✔Act 2
What is the resolution? ✔✔Act 5
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What city does the play take place? ✔✔Verona
Who are the families fighting? ✔✔The Montagues and the Capulets
Why are the Montagues and the Capulets fighting? ✔✔An ancient grudge, probably bc of land
and power
What does the prologue say is the only thing that will end their parents' rage? ✔✔That 2 children
from both families one from the Capulets and one from the Montagues fall in love but would kill
themselves
What is the purpose of the prologue? ✔✔To hook the reader
What type of poem is the prologue? ✔✔A sonnet
What does Shakespeare do to highlight important parts in the plot? ✔✔He writes it as a sonnet
,What is the exposition of Romeo and Juliet? ✔✔Prologue and Act 1
Who started the fight in Act 1 Scene 1? ✔✔Sampson a Capulet
Who is Sampson? ✔✔A servant of Capulet
Who is Romeo? ✔✔Son of Montague
Who is Benvolio? ✔✔Romeos friend and nephew of Montague
Who is Balthasar? ✔✔Servant of Montague
Who is Abram? ✔✔Servant of Montague
Who is Juliet? ✔✔Daughter of Capulet
, Who is Tybalt? ✔✔Nephew of Lady Capulet, a great but violent swordsman
Who is Peter? ✔✔Juliet's nurses servant
Who is Gregory? ✔✔The Capulets servant
Who is Prince Escalus? ✔✔Ruler of Verona
Who is Mercutio? ✔✔Friend of Romeo, and relative of the Prince, he is a bit wild and funny,
and a bit paranoid
What is a Friar? ✔✔A Franciscan priest
Who is Count Paris? ✔✔A young nobleman who is related to the Prince
What is the rising Action? ✔✔Act 2
What is the resolution? ✔✔Act 5
