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Romeo and Juliet Study Guide
**Be sure to answer each question with a COMPLETE SENTENCE!!
ACT I
Scene i
1. Who is fighting at the beginning of this act? Be sure to note what family they are associated with.
2. What does the Prince say to those who are found fighting in the street again?
3. What is Romeo’s problem in the first scene and what caused it?
4. What advice does Benvolio give Romeo? What is Romeo’s reaction?
Quotations
1. “Part, fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do.”
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2. “O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos of well seeming forms!”
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3. “Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll not with Cupid’s arrow, --she hath Dian’s wit.”
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Scene ii
1. Who is interested in marrying Juliet? What is Capulet’s reaction / response to the proposal?
2. How does Romeo find out about the Capulet party? Why does he want to go?
3. What does Benvolio suggest Romeo do at the party?
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1. “Take thou some new infection to thy eye, and the rank poison of the old will die.”
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2. “Compare her face with some that I shall show, and I will make thee think they swan a crow.”
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Scene iii
1. What does Lady Capulet discuss with Juliet?
2. What is the Nurse’s reaction to this proposal?
3. What is the Nurse like? List at least 3 specific adjectives to describe her character.
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1. “Tell me daughter Juliet, how stands your disposition to be married?”
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2. “I’ll look to like if looking liking move . . . “
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Scene iv
1. What is Romeo’s overall mood?
2. What is the purpose of the “Queen Mab” speech?
3. What is the significance of Romeo’s lines (starting at line 106) at the end of this scene?
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1. “I dreamt a dream to-night.”
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2. “O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.”
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3. “ I fear too early; for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars, shall bitterly begin his fearful
date with this night’s revels; and expire the term of a despised life, clos’d in my breast.”
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Scene v
1. Who was angered by Romeo’s presence at the party? What is Lord Capulet’s response/reaction?
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1. “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in an
Ethiop’s ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!”
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2. “Did my heart love till now? Foreswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
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3. “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!”
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ACT II
Scene i
1. Do Romeo’s friends know that he’s in love with Juliet? How do you know?
Scene ii
1. How does Romeo first greet Juliet? How does he describe her?
2. How will Romeo and Juliet arrange future meetings? What do they promise to do?
Quotations
1. “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is the sun!”
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2. “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny they father and refuse
thy name; Or, if though will not, be bur sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”
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3. “O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d”
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4. “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
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Scene iii
1. Where does Friar Laurence think Romeo has been?
2. What proposal does Romeo make to the Friar?
3. Why is the Friar concerned about Romeo’s love for Juliet?
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1. “For this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your household’s rancor to pure love.”
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Scene iv
1. What does Mercutio think about Romeo’s love? How has he seen Romeo change?
2. Whom do Mercutio and the others make fun of?
3. Why does this person go to Romeo?
4. What message does Romeo send? To whom? About what?
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1. “Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan’s the fairer of the two.”
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Scene V
1. How does the Nurse tease Juliet in this scene?
2. What effect does the Nurse’s delay have upon Juliet?
3. What does the Nurse think of Romeo?
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1. “Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence’s cell; There stays a husband to make you a wife.”
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Scene vi
1. How soon after meeting one another have Romeo and Juliet married?
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1. “These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph dies; Like fire and powder, which as they kiss
consume.”
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ACT III
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Scene i
1. Why does Benvolio urge Tybalt and Mercutio to take their fight off the streets?
2. How does Romeo act when he and Tybalt first meet? Why?
3. Why does Romeo’s behavior toward Tybalt anger Mercutio? What happens to Mercutio?
4. Even to the end, Mercutio retains his wit. Give an example of a pun in lines 94-104?
5. Why does Romeo decide to fight Tybalt?
6. What punishment does the Prince of Verona declare for Romeo? Why doesn’t he have Romeo executed?
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1. “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
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2. “A plague o’ both your house! They have made worms’ meat of me.”
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Scene ii
1. How does Juliet respond when she hears that Romeo has killed Tybalt? How does her response change?
2. On what mission does the Nurse go? What does Romeo send to Juliet?
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1. “Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven
so fine that all the world will be in love with night…”
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Scene iii
1. How does the Friar’s view of the punishment differ from Romeo’s?
2. What plan has the Friar outlined for Romeo’s future?
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1. “Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say death; For exile hath more terror in his look, much more than death. Do not say
“banishment.”
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Scenes iv & v
1. What do the Capulets think is wrong with Juliet? What plan does the Lord Capulet make for Thursday? How is this
an example of dramatic irony?
2. How does Juliet respond to her father’s decision for her to marry Paris?
3. How does Capulet respond to Juliet’s decision?
4. What advice does the Nurse give Juliet? How does this affect Juliet?
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1. “Indeed I never shall be satisfied with Romeo till I behold him –dead- is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex’d.”
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2. “I would fool was married to her grave!”
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3. “I’ll to the friar, to know his remedy; if all else fail, myself have power to die.”
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ACT IV
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Scene i
1. Why does Paris come to Friar Laurence’s cell?
2. What solution to the problem does the friar offer to Juliet? How does Juliet feel about this solution?
3. How long will the potion last?
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1. “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off.”
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Scene ii
1. How does Juliet pretend to please her father?
2. What change does Capulet make in the wedding plans?
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1. “I’ll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.”
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Scene iii
1. What three fears does Juliet have before she takes the potion?
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1. “Come vial. What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married, then, to-morrow morning? No, no! This
shall forbid it. Lie thou there.”
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2. “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.”
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Scenes iv & v
1. How are the actions of the Capulet’s at the beginning of Act IV ironic, given the info they are about to find out?
2. Give an example of death being personified. To what is death compared?
3. What does the friar tell the Capulets to do? How can the friar speak as calmly as he does?
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1. “Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
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ACT V
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Scene i
1. Where does this scene take place?
2. What news does Balthasar bring from Verona?
3. What does Romeo plan to do after he hears the news?
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1. “Then I defy you stars.”
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Scene ii
1. Upon what mission was Friar John sent?
2. Why was Friar John unable to deliver Friar Laurence’s letter to Romeo?
3. What does Friar Laurence prepare to do?
Scene iii
1. Why has Paris come to the Capulet’s tomb?
2. Why had Romeo come to the tomb?
3. Why does Paris feel justified in his determination to kill Romeo?
4. How does Romeo try to persuade Paris to leave? What ends up happening?
5. What does Friar urge Juliet to do as she awakens? Why does he leave the tomb? Should he be blamed for leaving?
6. How do old Montague and Capulet show they have learned the price of their families’ feuding?
Quotations
1. “Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”
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2. “Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after?”
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3. “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust and let me die.”
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4. “For I will raise her statue in pure gold, that whiles Verona by that name is known, there shall no figure at such rate
be set as that of true and faithful Juliet.”
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5. “For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
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