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Final Jeopardy
$100 Answer from Shakespeare & His Times
Queen Elizabeth I was Queen of England while Shakespeare was writing.
$200 Question from Shakespeare & His Times
Romeo & Juliet is an example of which of the three types of plays written by Shakespeare?
$200 Answer from Shakespeare & His Times
Romeo & Juliet is an example of a tragedy, one of the three types of plays written by Shakespeare (the other two are comedies and histories).
$300 Question from Shakespeare & His Times
What was the name of the theatre near London where Shakespeare performed?
$300 Answer from Shakespeare & His Times
The theatre near London where Shakespeare performed was the Globe Theatre.
$300 Question from Characters
Which character could be described as having a very short temper and a tendency to hold a grudge?
$300 Answer from Characters
Tybalt could be described as having a very short temper and a tendency to hold a grudge?
$400 Answer from Characters
Mercutio is a foil to Romeo. Romeo is a hopeless romantic who falls in and out of love at the drop of a hat. Mercutio is cynical about love.
$500 Question from Characters
Explain why the character of Capulet would have been written to please the merchant class/ middle class audience.
$500 Answer from Characters
The merchant class wanted to see stories about social and/or political topics. Because Capulet is unusual in that he is allowing his daughter to have a say in who she marries, his character would have been meant to please the interests of the middle class.
$100 Question from Word Play
Romeo. I dreamt a dream tonight.50 Mercutio. And so did I. Romeo. Well, what was yours? Mercutio. That dreamers often lie. Romeo. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
Identify and explain the word play in this passage.
$100 Answer from Word Play
Romeo. I dreamt a dream tonight.50 Mercutio. And so did I. Romeo. Well, what was yours? Mercutio. That dreamers often lie. Romeo. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
$200 Question from Word Play
Sampson. Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals. Gregory. No, for then we should be colliers. Sampson. I mean, and we be in choler, we’ll draw. Gregory. Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.
Identify and explain the word play in this passage.
$200 Answer from Word Play
Sampson. Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals. Gregory. No, for then we should be colliers. Sampson. I mean, and we be in choler, we’ll draw. Gregory. Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.
$300 Question from Word Play
What is the metaphor in this passage? Explain it.
Prince Escalus You men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins!
$300 Answer from Word Play
Prince Escalus You men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins!
Metaphor: purple fountains = blood
$400 Question from Word Play
Sampson. ’Tis true; and therefore women, being the 15 weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall.
Which audience(s) would this passage entertain and why?
$400 Answer from Word Play
Sampson. ’Tis true; and therefore women, being the 15 weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall.
$500 Question from Word Play
But he, his own affections’ counselor, 145 Is to himself—I will not say how true— But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding° and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious° worm Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air 150 Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Identify and explain the metaphor in this passage.
$500 Answer from Word Play
But he, his own affections’ counselor, 145 Is to himself—I will not say how true— But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding° and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious° worm Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air 150 Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
$300 Answer from Plot
It was unusual during the Renaissance for fathers to allow their daughters to have any say in who they married.
$500 Question from Plot
How does Tybalt’s speech in Act I scene 5 foreshadow future events in the play?
Tybalt. Patience perforce° with willful choler° meeting
90 Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
I will withdraw; but this intrusion shall, Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall.
$500 Answer from Plot
Tybalt vows revenge. His speech foreshadows that he will fight with Romeo and the Montagues later.
$100 Question from Potpourri
Where is the example of alliteration in this passage?
Montague. Thou villain Capulet!—Hold me not; let me go.
Lady Montague. Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
$100 Answer from Potpourri
Montague. Thou villain Capulet!—Hold me not; let me go.
Lady Montague. Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
$200 Answer from Potpourri
Shakespeare wrote for the aristocracy, the middle class, and the groundlings (commoners).
$300 Question from Potpourri
Romeo is depressed. Give one example from the text that shows this is true.
$400 Question from Potpourri
Romeo is fickle. Give one example from the text that shows that this is true.
$500 Question from Potpourri
Who said the following? Why is it important?
My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! 140 Prodigious° birth of love it is to me That I must love a loathèd enemy.
$500 Answer from Potpourri
My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! 140 Prodigious° birth of love it is to me That I must love a loathèd enemy.
Juliet said this. It is important because this is the moment she realizes that the man she has just fallen in love with (her first love) is a Montague and her enemy.
Final Jeopardy
Find an example in the text that shows Romeo’s fatalistic outlook on life (i.e. that he believes fate will determine the outcome of his life).
Final Jeopardy Answer
I fear, too early; for 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
110 Of a despisèd life, closed in my breast, By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But he that hath the steerage of my course Direct my sail!
Scene 5