Plot
Characters
Mortality
Decisions, Decisions
Quotes
100
For how long is the potion that Juliet drinks supposed to last?
42 hours
100
Who first finds Juliet "dead?"
The Nurse
100
How does Romeo die?
He drinks poison
100
How does Juliet die?
What is dagger to the heart?
100
"What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand?/Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:/O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop/To help me after . . . O happy dagger! This is thy sheath." Who said this?
Juliet
200
List in order 4 characters who die (actual deaths) in Acts 4 and 5.
Paris, Romeo, Juliet, Lady Montague
200
True or False: Juliet apologizes to her father for her behavior after seeing Friar Lawrence.
True.
200
How does Juliet first attempt to kill herself?
What is take the same poison as Romeo?
200
What good comes from the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? How does this contrast from the prologue?
What is the families stop fighting?
200
"This letter was not nice, but full of charge, of dear import." Who said this?
Friar Lawrence
300
1.) Why does Paris go to see Friar Lawrence at first in Act 4? 2.) Who enters while Paris is speaking to Friar Lawrence AND 3.) What is the tone of their interaction with each other?
1.) To ask the friar to marry himself to Juliet 2.) Juliet 3.) Awkward
300
For what reason does Juliet tell her father that she went to see Friar Lawrence?
What is to be absolved of her sins?
300
What news does Balthasar bring Romeo?
What is that Juliet is dead?
300
Why is the apothecary reluctant to sell the poison to Romeo?
It is death to sell that poison in Mantua
300
"Capulet! Montague!/See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,/That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love." Who said this?
Prince Escalus
400
Explain, in detail, Friar Lawrence's plan to help Juliet.
Juliet will take a potion the night before the wedding which will make her appear dead (stiff, pale, cold, lower heartbeat, slow breathing) for 42 hours. Her family will bury her in the Capulet tomb. Friar Lawrence and Romeo and will be at the tomb when she wakes up and Romeo and Juliet will go to Mantua together.
400
What literary term describes the kind of speech Juliet gives about her fears of drinking the potion between the options listed below: A) Monologue B) Soliloquy C) Aside D) Sonnet
What is soliloquy?
400
Why does the apothecary finally decide to sell Romeo the poison?
What is his poverty?
400
What is Romeo's plan on learning of Juliet's death?
What is buy poison then go to her tomb to kill himself?
400
"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,/Doing more murders in this loathsome world,/Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. . . thou hast sold me none./Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh." Who said this TO who?
Romeo to the Apothecary
500
Give one thing that is said in these acts that shows how women were not considered as equally as men.
What is Paris says that he owns Juliet OR Friar Lawrence talking about Juliet overcoming her "womanish" fears.
500
List 5 of Juliet's fears (in order) about taking the potion.
1. It won't work and she will have to marry Paris. 2. It is really a poison. She doesn't entirely trust the Friar. 3. She will wake before Romeo reaches her and she will suffocate in the tomb. 4. She will be tormented by her dead relatives; haunted. 5. She will go insane or have her head "bashed in."
500
What kept the letter from Friar Lawrence about Juliet's death from getting to Romeo?
Friar John was quarantined in a house due to a spreading plague.
500
How does Shakespeare make the last two acts appear to go by quickly? List 2 ways Shakespeare does this.
Many deaths in quick succession and in many places the dialogue is shorter, making it read or appear to go by faster.
500
"Her body sleeps in Capulet's monument,/And her immortal part with angels lives." Who said this?
Balthasar
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