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Name: _________________________
Mr. Bovaird
Block: _____________
Romeo and Juliet – Act II Study Guide
Study Questions:
1. When Romeo slips away from his friends after the Masquerade party, Benvolio and Mercutio
think he is going to see ________________________.
2. Where does Romeo actually go after the party? _____________________________
Why?
3. What risk is Romeo taking?
Is he frightened? ________________
4. Explain how Romeo encounters Juliet after the party and how she discovers his presence.
5. What is Juliet talking about when Romeo first overhears her?
6. Juliet feels that in order to prove that his love is honorable, Romeo must do what?
7. ______________________ continuously interrupts Juliet when she talks to Romeo.
8. What arrangements are made by Romeo and Juliet? (be specific)
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9. Where does Romeo go after leaving Juliet?
10. Friar Lawrence is an expert about what subject? _________________.
11. With what information does Romeo surprise Friar Lawrence?
12. The Friar agrees to _________________________________________________because
_____________________________________________________________________.
13. ________________________ sends a letter to Romeo’s house. Why does this character do this?
14. Who is the messenger that Juliet sends to Romeo? ____________________
15. Who is Peter?
What is he like?
16. Who makes fun of the Nurse until she gets angry?
17. What are the plans that Romeo has made?
18. How does the Nurse make Juliet mad?
19. What does the Nurse have to get for Romeo?
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20. Who all are present when Romeo and Juliet are married?
21. Who are the four people who know about the marriage?
Quotable Quotes:
Directions: Place the name of the character who speaks these words in the blank on the left.
_________________ 1.
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.”
_________________ 2.
“O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,
As is a wingéd messenger of heaven…”
_________________ 3.
“‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!”
_________________ 4.
“O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.
Or if thou thinkst I am too quickly won,
I’ll frown, and be perverse and say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo, but else not for the world.”
_________________ 5.
“Although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract tonight.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,”
_________________ 6.
“A thousand times the worse to want thy light.
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books;
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
_________________ 7.
“‘Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone,
And yet no farther than a wanton’s bird,
That lets it hop a little from her hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty.”
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_________________ 8.
“Sweet, so would I.
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say “Good night” till it be morrow.”
_________________ 9.
“The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Check’ring the Eastern clouds with streaks of light,
And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels.”
_________________ 10.
“Young men’s love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
_________________ 11.
“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
_________________ 12.
“Where the devil should this Romeo be?
Came he not home tonight?”
_________________ 13.
“More than prince of cats, O,
he’s the courageous captain of compliments.”
_________________ 14.
“Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?”
_________________ 15.
“A sail, a sail!”
_________________ 16.
“If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with you.”
_________________ 17.
“Bid her devise
Some means to come to shrift this afternoon,
And there she shall at Friar Lawrence’s cell
Be shrived and married.”
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_________________ 18.
“Now, good sweet nurse—O Lord, why lookest thou sad?
Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily.
If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news
By playing it to me with so sour a face.”
_________________ 19.
“Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’ cell.
There stays a husband to make you a wife.”
_________________ 20.
“Amen, amen. But come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute give me in her sight.
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare,
It is enough I may but call her mine.”
_________________ 21.
“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.”
_________________ 22.
“Come, come with me, and we will make short work,
For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
Till Holy Church incorporate two in one.”
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