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Grades 9 and 10 - Literature - High School - Romeo and Juliet - Context
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MCQs on the context in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

Grades 9 and 10 - Literature - High School - Romeo and Juliet - Context
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1. In the play, what is meant by the title 'nurse'?
2. Which of the following is specifically associated with the play's Italian setting?
3. Who ruled England at the time the play was written?
4. For aristocratic families in Elizabethan England, what was the primary purpose of marriage?
5. Around the time he was writing Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare also wrote another play which included as a comic sub-plot the tragic love affair of Pyramus and Thisbe. What is the name of this play?
6. When was Romeo and Juliet written?
7. Father Laurence suggests Juliet escape and hide from her parents in which of the following?
8. Shakespeare was not the first author to write the story of Romeo and Juliet. Which of the following is true?
9. Juliet is able easily to leave her house by explaining that she must visit Friar Laurence for confession. What would have made this excuse less plausible if the play had been set in Elizabethan England, rather than Italy?
10. Which of the following is the full title of the play?

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