Romeo and Juliet Acts 4 and 5 Review
Review the following questions and answers. Write down
questions/answers you do not know, and spend time
focusing your studying on those.
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•To Plan his wedding to Juliet
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Why is Paris at Friar Lawrence’s cell at the beginning of Act IV?
•42 hours
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How long is the sleeping potion supposed to take effect?
•The Capulet Vault
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Where will Juliet be placed once her family thinks she is dead?
•Romeo
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According to Friar Lawrence’s plan, who will be waiting for Juliet
when she wakes from the potion?
•Stab herself with a dagger
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If the potion does not work, what back-up plan does Juliet
have?
•Friar John will deliver a letter to him that
explains what is going on
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How is Romeo supposed to know about Juliet and Friar
Lawrence’s plan with the potion?
•Thursday
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On what day of the week is Juliet supposed to marry Paris?
•Nurse
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On the morning of the wedding, who goes to wake Juliet?
•Friar Lawrence
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Which character tells the Capulet family that Juliet is better off
in heaven?
•Everyone begins arranging a funeral
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How do the wedding preparations change after Juliet is found
dead?
•He is devistated
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How does County Paris react to Juliet’s death?
•he notices her body is cold and her joints
are stiff
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How does Lord Capulet know Juliet is “dead”?
•Balthasar
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Who brings news to Romeo that Juliet is dead?
•poison
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What does Romeo go purchase once he hears that Juliet is
dead?
•3 hours
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How long will it be before Juliet is supposed to wake up at the
beginning of Act V?
Friar John is not allowed into Mantua because he has
been exposed to the Plague
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In the text version of the play, why does Romeo not get the
letter?
•Paris
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In the film version of the play, which character do we not see
die at Juliet’s tomb who does die in the text version of the play?
He thinks Romeo is there to disturb Juliet’s body
Romeo told Paris to go away and listen to the warning of a
madman
He does not think any Montagues should be at a Capulet vault
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Why does Paris fight with Romeo at the Capulet vault?
•He acts before he thinks things through
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Romeo’s fatal flaw is which of the following?
•Mercutio, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, Paris,
Lady Montague
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Who has died by the end of the play (not just in Act V)?
•To his cell
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When Juliet awakens from the potion, where does Friar
Lawrence want to take her?
•by stabbing herself with Romeo’s dagger
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How does Juliet kill herself?
•Friar Lawrence
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When the watchmen (guards) arrive at the Capulet vault, whom
do they suspect is the murderer?
•A letter Romeo wrote, Balthasar, Friar
Lawrence, and the Page Boy
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At the end of the play, Prince Escalus discovers every detail
about what happened from which four accounts?
•Everyone has already been punished
because they have all lost someone close
to them
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When Prince Escalus says at the end of the play, “All are
punishéd,” what does he mean? (V.iii.295)
•Romeo’s banishment from Verona
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What event is the climax of the play?
•Love, Destiny, Choice
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What are some of the main themes in the play?
•Personification
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What literary devices is Shakespeare using when Romeo says to
Juliet’s “dead” body:
“Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no
power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s
ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, and death’s
pale flag is not advanced there” (V.iii.92-6).
•Dramatic
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An example of what type of irony is when Romeo takes his own
life because he thinks Juliet is dead, but we (the audience) know
that she is not.
•effect
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Shakespearean tragedies have a delicate balance of cause and
________.
•restored
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In a Shakespearean tragedy, the order of life is disrupted and
must be _________ by the end of the play
•A distant time and place (long ago and
far away)
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The setting in a Shakespearean tragedy is usually where and
when?
•In death of several of the main characters
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How do Shakespearean tragedies usually end?
•It will be over!
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What will happen to the feud between the Capulets and the
Montagues now that Romeo and Juliet are dead?