Grade 8 · World literature
This quiz helps revise “Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet” in World literature for grade 8. It has 25 questions in five categories: Who's Who, Plot Turns, City and Conflict, Shakespeare's Language, Play History. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Who raised Juliet from infancy, became her confidante, and carried messages between the young lovers?
What is the name of the hot-tempered cousin who recognizes Romeo at the feast and wants to fight?
What is the name…
In the gameWhich young nobleman asks…
In the gameWhich servant brings Romeo…
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At what celebration, shown here, do Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time?
In what place, shown here, does Romeo overhear Juliet declaring her love at night?
To which city, shown…
In the gameWhat does the friar…
In the gameWhat substance, shown in…
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Which pictured Italian city is the main setting of the play?
What long-running conflict between two noble families repeatedly causes street violence?
What punishment does the…
In the gameWhat happens between the…
In the gameWhat situation, shown here…
In the gameWhat 14-line poetic form is used for the play's opening Prologue?
What five-beat verse rhythm is used through much of the play?
What do we call…
In the gameWhat technique occurs when…
In the gameWhat technique sets opposites…
In the gameWhat dramatic genre does Romeo and Juliet belong to?
In what year did the first printed edition of the play appear?
Under which pictured English…
In the gameWho delivers the opening…
In the gameWhose 1562 English poem…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.