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Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Quotation Identification

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"What? Drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."

a)

Benvolio

b)

Romeo

c)

Mercutio

d)

Tybalt

2.

"I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, / Or manage it to part these men with me."

a)

Romeo

b)

Benvolio

c)

Mercutio

d)

Tybalt

3.

"If ever you disturb our streets again, / Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace."

a)

Tybalt

b)

Prince

c)

Lord Montague

d)

Mercutio

4.

"Black and portentous must this humor prove, / Unless good counsel may the cause remove."

a)

Lord Montague

b)

Mercutio

c)

Romeo

d)

Lord Capulet

5.

"Here's much to do with hate, but more with love, / Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, / O anything of nothing first create!"

a)

Mercutio

b)

Benvolio

c)

Romeo

d)

Juliet

6.

"But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; / My will to her consent is but a part."

a)

Lord/Lady Capulet

b)

Nurse

c)

Lord/Lady Montague

d)

Prince

7.

"Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. / An I might live to see thee married once, / I have my wish."

a)

Lady Capulet

b)

Lady Montague

c)

Nurse

d)

Lady Rosaline

8.

"Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you / Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, / Are made already mothers.

a)

Nurse

b)

Lady Capulet

c)

Lady Montague

d)

Lord

9.

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move, / But no more deep will I endure mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make it fly."

a)

Benvolio

b)

Romeo

c)

Juliet

d)

Lady Capulet

10.

"My mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night's revels, and expire the term / Of a despised life closed in my breast / By some vile forfeit of untimely death."

a)

Juliet

b)

Mercutio

c)

Benvolio

d)

Romeo

11.

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, / For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."

a)

Juliet

b)

Paris

c)

Mercutio

d)

Romeo

12.

"If I profane with this unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: / My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."

a)

Juliet

b)

Romeo

c)

Paris

d)

Benvolio

13.

"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, / Which mannerly devolution shows in this;"

a)

Romeo

b)

Juliet

c)

Paris

d)

Lady Capulet

14.

"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the East, and Juliet is the sun."

a)

Paris

b)

The Nurse

c)

Romeo

d)

Benvolio

15.

"O Romeo, O Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"

a)

Juliet

b)

Tybalt

c)

Benvolio

d)

Mercutio

16.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet."

a)

Juliet

b)

Romeo

c)

Nurse

d)

Friar

17.

"My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued,

wanting of thy love."

a)

Juliet

b)

Romeo

c)

Mercutio

d)

Paris

18.

"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning,

which doth cease to be ere one can say "it lightens."

Who is speaking and what is the it?

a)

Juliet

their love

b)

Juliet

R proposing marriage

c)

Romeo

their love

d)

Romeo

their passion

19.

"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,

But love from love, toward school with heavy looks."

a)

Romeo

b)

Benvolio

c)

Mercutio

d)

Friar