Act 3
What compels Romeo to finally fight Tybalt?
Mercutio's death (revenge)
Whom does everyone think Juliet weeps for?
Tybalt
Does Friar Lawrence approve of Juliet's marriage to Paris?
No, he says, "I like it not."
What was intended as Juliet's wedding day to Paris becomes her...
Funeral
Who gets to Romeo first, before Friar Lawrence's messenger?
Romeo's servant, Balthasar
How much time has passed between Romeo and Juliet's marriage and the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt?
A few hours
What will happen to Juliet if she refuses to marry Paris?
She will be disowned
Friar Lawrence suggests to Juliet that if she is desperate enough to kill herself, she would be desperate enough to...
Drink the sleeping potion, "a thing like death"
This lies upon Juliet “like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field”
What is "death"?
Why was the messenger delayed?
He was stuck in a sick house, in quarantine, and never made it Mantua
Where does Romeo "abscond" to after slaying Tybalt?
To Friar Lawrence's cell
Why does Juliet no longer trust the Nurse?
The Nurse tells her to marry Paris (feels like a betrayal)
Why does Lord Capulet's moving the wedding to the next day mess up Friar Larry's plan?
Because his message will not reach Romeo in time
Why must Juliet "act alone" with the potion?
She cannot allow anyone to interfere with or doubt her "death"
Who is also at the Capulet tomb when Romeo arrives?
Paris, whom Romeo slays
What for both Romeo and Juliet is "worse" than death in this Act?
Romeo's banishment
Lady Capulet threatens to do this to Romeo, even though he is banished
Send him a "dram" of poison in Mantua
How long will Juliet be "out"?
Two and forty hours
Why does Juliet suspect Friar Lawrence gave her actual poison?
To protect his reputation; to hide evidence of his marrying Juliet to Romeo
Who dies in Act 5? (hint: there are four characters)
Romeo, Juliet, Paris, and Lady Montague
How does Friar Lawrence scold Romeo after he kills Tybalt?
He tells him to be grateful (Juliet is alive, Tybalt would have killed Romeo anyway, he is just exiled not executed)
Juliet tries to persuade Romeo that it was the _____ and not the lark that "pierced the fearful hollow" of his ear, begging him to stay longer
The nightengale
What "shame" or sin would Juliet commit by marrying Paris?
Bigamy (being married to two people at once)
Juliet worries that if she wakes early in the tomb she will...
Go mad and slay herself
The play begins on Sunday and ends on...
Thursday (morning)