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Act 4
Act 4
Act 5
Act 5
Characteristics
100
Why does Paris go to see Friar Lawrence?
What is ask him to marry Juliet and himself
100
Who finds Juliet "dead"
What is Nurse
100
How does Romeo die?
What is poison
100
How does Juliet die?
What is dagger to the heart
100
Give a defining (crucial or important) characteristic of Mercutio.
What is witty, likes to talk, vulgar
200
Who enters while Paris is speaking to Friar Lawrence?
What is Juliet
200
What does Capulet do in regards to the wedding when Juliet apologizes for her behavior?
What is move the wedding up a day
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?
What is the families stop fighting
200
Give a defining (crucial or important) characteristic of the Nurse.
What is wanton, low-brow, mother-figure
300
What does Juliet intend to do if Friar Lawrence cannot help her?
What is kill herself
300
What does Capulet say about Death and Juliet?
What is that Death has married his daughter, that Death has slept with Juliet, and that Death is heir.
300
What news does Balthazar bring Romeo?
What is that Juliet is dead
300
Why is the apothecary reluctant to sell the poison to Romeo?
What is it is death to sell poison in Mantua
300
Give a defining (crucial or important) characteristic of Tybalt.
What is hot headed, bad tempered, good sword fighter
400
Explain, in detail, Friar Lawrence's plan to help Juliet.
What is 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.
400
What literary term describes the speech Juliet gives about her fears of drinking the potion?
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
Give a defining (crucial or important) characteristic of Benvolio.
What is calm, doesn't like to fight, peace-maker
500
Give one thing that is said in this Act that shows how women were considered property.
What is Paris says that he owns Juliet's face. Friar Lawrence talks about overcoming her womanish fears.
500
List all of Juliet's fears (in order) of taking the potion.
What is 1. It won't work and she will have to marry Paris. 2. It is really a poison so Friar Lawrence won't get in trouble. 3. She will wake before Romeo reaches her and she will suffocate. 4. She will be tormented by her dead relatives; haunted. 5. She will go insane and play with a dead relative's skeleton then bash her head in with a bone.
500
What kept the letter from Friar Lawrence about Juliet's death from getting to Romeo?
What is Friar John was quarantined in a house thought to have the plague.
500
How can it be said that this is a play about timing?
What is any amount of timing changed would have changed the story completely. Examples needed.
500
Give a defining (crucial or important) characteristic of Romeo.
What is quick to fall in love, doesn't think things through.