1.
"Therefore I will push Montague's men from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall."
Correct Answer
A. Sampson
Explanation
Samson and Gregory are talking at the beginning of the play of how much they hate all Montagues.
2.
"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
Correct Answer
C. Abram
Explanation
Sampson has just bit his thumb at Abram, a sign of flipping someone off, and Abram is testing him to see if it was directed at him. Of course Abram knows it was Sampson and they are both looking to pick a fight against the enemy family.
3.
"That quench the fire of your pernicious rate with purple mountains issuing from your veins!"
Correct Answer
C. Prince
Explanation
The Prince is complaining about the fighting in the middle of the streets of Verona. He tells the two families to stop their quarrels.
4.
"Why, such is love's transgression. Griefs of mine own lie in my breast..."
Correct Answer
B. Romeo
Explanation
Romeo is lamenting about how is love, Rosaline, doesn't love him back.
5.
"Let two summers wither in their pride ere we may think her ripe to be a bride."
Correct Answer
B. Capulet
Explanation
Lord Capulet is telling Paris that she is too young to be a bride -- maybe in 2 years.
6.
"Enough of this. I pray thee hold thy peace."
Correct Answer
C. Lady Capulet
Explanation
Lady Capulet is telling Nurse to stop talking about their old memories. She has to get Juliet ready for the party.
7.
"What shall this speech be spoke for our excuse? Or shall we on without apology?"
Correct Answer
C. Romeo
Explanation
Romeo is deciding if they should follow custom by announcing their name as they enter the party. Benvolio then decides that they shouldn't, since they weren't even supposed to be there in the first place.
8.
"...A villain, that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity of this night."
Correct Answer
B. Tybalt
Explanation
Tybalt spots Romeo at the party and complains to Lord Capulet. Capulet, however, does not want to make a scene out of it, so he ignores Romeo's presence altogether.
9.
"Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy center out."
Correct Answer
A. Romeo
Explanation
Romeo is saying that without Juliet is lifeless and nothing.
10.
"God pardon sin! Was thou with Rosaline?"
Correct Answer
A. Friar
Explanation
The Friar is trying to figure out where Romeo has been all night, and he automatically assumes he was with Rosaline.
11.
"Alas, poor Romeo, he already dead: stabbed with a white wench's black eye; run through the ear with a love song..."
Correct Answer
C. Mercutio
Explanation
Mercutio is making fun of Romeo for loving Rosaline so much. If only he knew that Romeo no longer love Rosaline.
12.
"I am aweary, give me a leave awhile. Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce have I!"
Correct Answer
B. Nurse
Explanation
Nurse has just come home from speaking with Romeo, and is now messing with Juliet who is overly eager to hear what went down.
13.
"For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone till Holy Church incorporate two in one."
Correct Answer
A. Friar
Explanation
This is what the Friar says as he marries Romeo and Juliet.
14.
"Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch."
Correct Answer
C. Mercutio
Explanation
This is after Mercutio is stabbed. He is trying to wave it off like it is nothing, but the stabbing proves to be fatal.
15.
"Prince, as thou art true, for blood of ours shed blood of Montague."
Correct Answer
A. Lady Capulet
Explanation
This is after Tybalt is dead. Lady Capulet is expressing her grief, but also recognizing that Tybalt killed Mercutio.
16.
"...and when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night..."
Correct Answer
B. Juliet
Explanation
Who else would it be? This is before Juliet knows of Romeo's banishment. They are just married and she already misses him.
17.
"There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers."
Correct Answer
C. Nurse
Explanation
Nurse is grieving over Tybalt's death and is blaming Romeo for it.
18.
"O, then I see that madmen have no ears."
Correct Answer
C. Friar
Explanation
Friar is beginning to become frustrated with Romeo, for he keeps complaining about the banishment. The Friar is accusing Romeo have being crazy and not listening to him.
19.
"Would none but I might venge my cousin's death!"
Correct Answer
B. Juliet
Explanation
Of course Juliet has to pretend to hate Romeo, for no one but the Nurse knows of their marriage. She has to pretend to be angry at what Romeo did.
20.
"When the sun sets the earth doth drizzle dew, but for the sunset of my brother's son it rains downright."
Correct Answer
A. Lord Capulet
Explanation
Lord Capulet is still grieving over the loss of his nephew.
21.
"My father Capulet will have it so, and I am no thing slow to slack his haste."
Correct Answer
C. Paris
Explanation
Paris is speaking with the Friar and arranging his marriage with Juliet. Friar is then put in a very difficult situation, for he just married Juliet to Romeo a few hours earlier.
22.
"What are you busy, ho? Need you my help?"
Correct Answer
C. Lady Capulet
Explanation
Lady Capulet comes into Juliet's room asking if she needs any help preparing for the wedding.