Romeo and Juliet quiz

“O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies in plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities.”

Speaker: Friar Laurence

Significance: Foreshadowing something that will happen with poison herbs

“So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”

Speaker: Friar Laurence

Significance: Questioning Romeo’s sincerity in his love for Juliet since it 

happened so quickly

 “Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”

Speaker: Friar Laurnce

Significance: Thoughtful and deliberate action is better than rushing; foreshadowing trouble ahead for Romeo and Juliet.

 “More than the prince of Cats, I can tell you. O, he’s the courageous captain of compliments.”

Speaker: Mercutio

Significance: Using sarcasm to mock Tybalt’s obsession with dueling rules.

“What she bid me say, I will keep myself; but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into a fool’s paradise, as they say; for the gentle woman is young; and there- for.”

Speaker: Nurse

Significance: Warning Romeo not to lead Juliet on.

“Lord, how my head aches! What a head have I! It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces. My back o’ t’ other side,-- ah, my back, my back! Beshrew your heart for sending me about To catch my death with jaunting up and down.”

Speaker: Nurse

Significance: The Nurse using delay tactics with Juliet.

“Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, and a kind, and handsome; and, I warrant, a virtuous–Where is your mother?”

Speaker: Nurse

Significance: Showing how much she thinks of Romeo.

“Then hie you hence Friar Laurence’ cell”

Speaker: Nurse

Significance: Confirms the wedding plan.

“ Do though but close our hands with holy words, then

love-devouring death do what he dare–”

Speaker: Romeo

Significance: As long as their hands are joined in marriage, Romeo is unafraid of death or anything else. As being able to call Juliet his wife is enough.

“These violent delights have violent ends.”

Speaker: Friar Laurence

Significance: A warning that extreme intense passions can lead to destructive ends, comparing the love to fire and gun powder, which consume each other upon contact.

“ Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”

Speaker: Friar Laurence

Significance: He advises the couple to love at a moderate pace, as moving too quickly can be as bad as moving too slow.

“For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.”

Speaker: Benvolio

Foreshadows the violence to come.

“ Or I shall faint. A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me I have it, And soundly too. Your houses!”

Speaker: Mercutio

Cursing both families as he dies, foreshadowing the continued feud.

“O, I am fortune’s fool!”

Speaker: Romeo

He feels that his attempts to act for good by fate, will lead to a tragedy.

“O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face!”

Speaker: Juliet

Juliet is torn between her love for Romeo and her disgust at his actions.

“‘Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here, Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Lice here in heaven and may look on her; But Romeo may not, More validity, More honourable state, more courtship lives”

Speaker: Romeo

He feels that being exiled to Mantua is worse than death because it separates him from Juliet.

Line 115-118: “Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art; Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast. Unseemly woman in a seeming both!”

Speaker: Friar Lawrence

Frustrated by Romeo's despair, reminds him to act with more self-control andconsider his wife.

Line 123-125: “I pray you tell my lord and father, madam, I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,”

Speaker: Juliet

In a moment of defiance, Juliet vows that she will only marry Romeo.