Romeo and Juliet Quiz and Answer Key Bundle for High School

Evaluate general reading comprehension and eliminate assessment planning responsibilities with this bundle of quizzes covering the entirety of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a self-grading Google Drive bundle option is available.) A breakdown of content follows.

Act 1. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• The purpose of a chorus

• A character known as a peace-maker

• The reason for street-fighting in Verona

• Prince Escalus's declaration

• Romeo's cause for sadness

• Lord Capulet's attitude toward marrying off Juliet

• Benvolio's encouragement (to Romeo)

• Juliet's attitude toward marriage

• Mercutio's treatment of Romeo

• A foreshadowing fear

• Tybalt's temperament

• Lord Capulet's reaction to Romeo's presence at the party

• The revelation of Juliet's true identity

Act 2. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Juliet's beauty and Romeo's metaphor

• The rejection of one's name

• Romeo's great fear, expressed during the balcony scene

• Juliet's concerns over acting to hastily

• Friar Laurence's specialty

• Friar Laurence's beliefs and philosophies

• Friar Laurence's thoughts regarding the union of Romeo & Juliet

• Tybalt's letter

• Offensive comments toward the Nurse

• The Nurse's news for Romeo

• Friar Laurence's assessment of Romeo & Juliet's love

Act 3. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Mercutio's reason for fighting Tybalt

• Romeo's ill-fated attempt to stop the fight

• Romeo's reason for leaving Verona

• Juliet's criticisms of the Nurse

• The Nurse's confusing news

• Juliet's conflicting emotions toward her husband

• Friar Laurence's perspective on the Prince's punishment

• Romeo's erratic behavior

• Lord Capulet's arrangement with Paris

• Mantua

• A character who plans to have Romeo killed

• A threat of being disowned

• The Nurse's advice to Juliet

• Juliet's foreshadowing comments

Act 4. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Paris's perspective on Lord Capulet's motivations

• Juliet's confession to Paris

• Paris's lack of awareness about Lord Capulet's threat

• Juliet's confession to Friar Laurence

• Friar Laurence's plan

• Juliet's request for her father's forgiveness

• Lord Capulet's attitude toward Friar Laurence

• A terrible thought in Juliet's mind

• An alarming discovery

• A shift in Lord Capulet's emotions

Act 5. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Friar John's task

• The reason Friar John cannot complete his task

• Balthasar's significance

• Balthasar's lack of awareness

• A visit to the apothecary

• A conflict between Romeo and Paris in the churchyard

• Romeo's suicide

• Juliet's suicide

• Friar Laurence's emotional reaction

• The resolution

Materials are available for teaching a variety of Shakespeare’s plays:

• Hamlet - Google and printable

• Julius Caesar - Google and printable

• King Lear - Google and printable

• Macbeth - Google and printable

• Othello - Google and printable

• Romeo and Juliet - Google and printable

• The Merchant of Venice - Google and printable

• The Taming of the Shrew - Google and printable

• The Tempest - Google and printable