| Term | Definition |
| Mantua | To which city does Romeo go after being exiled from Verona? |
| For killing Tybalt | Why is Romeo exiled? |
| Friar Lawrence | Who performs Romeo and Juliet’s marriage? |
| Queen Mab | Who is the fairy that Mercutio says visits Romeo in dreams? |
| Act as if Romeo is dead and marry Paris | What does the Nurse advise Juliet to do after Romeo is exiled? |
| At Capulet’s feast | Where do Romeo and Juliet meet? |
| Tybalt | Who kills Mercutio? |
| Benvolio | Which character first persuades Romeo to attend the feast? |
| The nightingale | What, at first, does Juliet claim that Romeo hears the morning after their wedding night? |
| The morning sun | To what does Romeo first compare Juliet during the balcony scene? |
| The Nurse | Who discovers Juliet after she takes Friar Lawrence’s potion? |
| Montague | Who proposes that a gold statue of Juliet be built in Verona? |
| With poison in Juliet's tomb | How and where does Romeo commit suicide? |
| Friar Lawrence | Who is the last person to see Juliet before she stabs herself dead? |
| He is held inside a quarantined house, and is unable to leave | Why is Friar John unable to deliver Friar Lawrence’s message to Romeo in Mantua? |
| He is poor, and needs the money | Why does the Apothecary agree to sell Romeo poison? |
| Sunday | On what day do Romeo and Juliet meet? |
| Rosaline | With whom is Romeo madly in love for the first two scenes of the play? |
| The Montagues and Capulets | Whom does Mercutio curse as he lies dying after a duel? |
| star-crossed | What term does the Chorus use to describe the lovers? |