Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Act 4
Act 5
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what are the young men fighting about?
their families despise each other over whose master is better
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What is Romeo doing at the beginning of Act Two?
He was jumping over the Capulet's wall to see Juliet
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Who begs Mercutio to leave the streets of Verona becasue the Capulets might also be there on this very hot day?
Benvolio
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According to Paris, why does Lord Capulet "haste our marriage?
So that Juliet can get over Tybalt's death faster
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Explain how Romeo's dream could be foreshadowing?
He says that his lady wakes him from the dead. In the prologue, it says that the two lovers are going to die.
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who tries to break up the fight?
Benvolio
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What uneasy feeling does Friar Lawrence have?
He is worried because Romeo and Juliet; their families are enemies.
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Who comes to the public square looking for Romeo?
Tybalt
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What could go wrong with Friar's plan
Romeo gets caught, Romeo thinks she's dead, the nurse won't leave, the family will bury her alive, the poison kills her
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Why does Romeo go to the Apothecary?
To get an instanteous suicidal poison
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what is Tybalt's attitude toward the dispute?
he wants to fight the Montagues
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Why does Friar Lawrence agree to perform the wedding?
He wants to end the feud between the two houses
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How does Tybalt insult Romeo and try to get him to fight?
He calls him a villain
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What does Juliet tell her father (Lord Capulet) when she comes back from confession
That she saw Paris, and that she told Paris she loved him.
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Why couldn't Friar John send Romeo the letter about the plan
There was disease in the town
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what is the reaction of the Prince?
really mad that this is the 3rd time they have fought and they will be killed if he sees them fight again
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What time will Juliet send word to Romeo the following day?
Exactly 9 o'clock in the morning
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Why won't Romeo fight Tybalt?
Becasue they are now related by marriage
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Why does Juliet lay a dagger down next to her?
If the wedding actually happens, she can stop it by killing herself.
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Why is Friar Lawrence now going to Juliet's "tomb"?
To get Juliet when she awakens and to take her to his cell.
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Benvolio fist describes Romeo's state to Lady Montague. What does he tell her?
Romeo is sad
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What is Juliet's mood as Scene 5 opens?
She is impatient and excited
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How is Mercutio killed?
Tybalt stabs him
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What is the dramatic irony of taking Juliet to the church at the end of Scene
The readers knows that Juliet isn't dead but the Capulets don't know that.
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What does their deaths cause and why
They cause the Capulets and Montagues to rethink their fued. Both families realize they lost something important to them.
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