Romeo And Juliet

Question 0

Who else is at the tomb? What happens?

Act 5

Answer 0

Paris and Page
Romeo and Paris fight and Paris is left dead and as his dying wish request to be placed in the tomb beside Juliet is filled by Romeo

Question 1

From where does Romeo procure such a deadly poison?

Act 5

Answer 1

Apothecary

Question 2

What does Romeo give to Balthasar? Why does he threaten them?
(Act 5)

Answer 2

Romeo gives Balthasar a letter to take to his father and because he wants to die alone with Juliet with no chance of being stopped.

Question 3

Who else died on this night? (2) (besides Romeo and Juliet)

Act 5

Answer 3

Lady Montague and Paris

Question 4

What do Capulet and Montague agree to do to honor their children?
(Act 5)

Answer 4

To never fight again and to make golden statues of their children

Question 5

What happened to Friar Laurence? What evidence is used to corroborate the story?
(Act 5)

Answer 5

Friar Laurence’s plan was thrown off when Friar John got held up on his journey to give Romeo the letter of the plan due to a plague Quarantine of 24 hours. The story was corroborated when Benvolio gave the letter Romeo wrote to his father and it proved Friar Laurence’s story.

Question 6

Romeo

Answer 6

Husband of Juliet
Killed Tybalt
Son of the Montagues
Suicide

Question 7

Juliet

Answer 7

Wife of Romeo
Suicide
Daughter of the Capulets

Question 8

Mercutio

Answer 8

Kinsman of the prince
Friend of Romeo
Killed by Tybalt

Question 9

Benvolio

Answer 9

Friend of Romeo

Nephew of Montague

Question 10

Tybalt

Answer 10

Juliet’s cousin
Killed by Romeo
Nephew of the Capulet

Question 11

Nurse

Answer 11

Julie’s caretaker

Question 12

Lord Capulet

Answer 12

Juliet’s father

Question 13

Lady Capulet

Answer 13

Juliet’s mother

Question 14

Lord Montague

Answer 14

Romeo’s father

Question 15

Lady Montague

Answer 15

Romeos mother

Grief induced suicide

Question 16

Count Paris

Answer 16

Going to marry Juliet
Romeo killed him
Noblesman

Question 17

Prince

Answer 17

Ruler of Verona

Question 18

Rosaline

Answer 18

Romeo’s first love

Question 19

Friar Laurence

Answer 19

A priest that married Romeo and Juliet

Created Juliet’s plan to help Juliet and Romeo

Question 20

Friar John

Answer 20

Priest that was used as a messenger for Friar Laurence

Question 21

Plot details of the Prologue

Answer 21

The chorus sets up the plot for the romantic tragedy.

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”

Question 22

Plot details of the opening fight scene

Answer 22

The servants of the feuding families of Capulet and Montague break out into a brawl. Benvolio, a Montague tries to stop the brawl, but he too joins in when Tybalt, a Capulet arrives. The Prince shows up and breaks up the fight and tells the families if any more fighting occurs, that person will be sentenced to death.

Question 23

Why does Romeo go to the party?

Answer 23

His friends and family wanted to take his mind off of Rosaline. They also wanted him to get out of the mood he was in a make him have a little fun. Benvolio his cousin, is the main person that pushes him to go, to make Romeo see Rosaline as not as good and as special as other people at the masquerade. Benvolio tells him “Compare thine beauty with some that I shall show. I will make thee think thy swan a crow”

Question 24

Who is Queen Mab and what importance does she have?

Answer 24

Mercutio says a speech about the fairy Queen Mab who rides through the night on her tiny wagon bringing dreams to sleepers. Through the Queen Mab imagery, Mercutio suggests that all desires and fantasies are as nonsensical and fragile as Mab, and that they are basically corrupting. This point of view contrasts starkly with that of Romeo and Juliet, who see their love as real and ennobling.

Question 25

Plot details between Balthasar and the Prince

Answer 25

Balthasar proves Friar Laurence's story to the prince in act 5 by giving Romeo's letter to the Prince.

Question 26

Deaths in Act 5

Answer 26

Paris Lady Montague Romeo Juliet

Question 27

What were Friar Laurence's intentions?

Answer 27

Friar Laurence's intentions for his participation in any matter for the relationship of Romeo and Juliet was to cause peace for the Montague and Capulet families.

Question 28

What was Friar Laurence's Plan and how does it go astray?

Answer 28

- Go home - Be happy - give consent to marry Paris - Be alone - the night before the wedding drink the vial - you'll fall in a deathly sleep for 42 hours - you'll be taken to the Capulet vault - I'll send Romeo a letter to explain - He'll be there when you awake - You'll escape together - Juliet gets told that she will marry instead of thursday - Friar john gets stopped in a town due to a plague and is in quarantine for 24 hours, so the letter does not get to Romeo, but instead Benvolio reaches Romeo first to tell him that Juliet is dead.

Question 29

What is an apothecary and what importance did it have?

Answer 29

An Apothecary is a medieval pharmacist. He gives Romeo a mortal drug because Romeo does not want to live without Juliet and plans to take it beside her so they will be dead together.

Question 30

What are Juliet's fears?

Answer 30

1. That she will die 2. That the vial won't work 3. That she will choke to death 4. That Romeo won't be there when she wakes up 5. She had a vision of Tybalt's ghost

Question 31

Define Tragedy

Answer 31

a work in which the protagonist, a person of high degree, is engaged in a significant struggle and which ends in ruin or destruction

Question 32

Define Hero

Answer 32

in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self-sacrifice—that is, heroism—for some greater good of all humanity.

Question 33

Define Flaw

Answer 33

a fault

Question 34

Define Personification

Answer 34

endowing non-human objects or creatures with human qualities or characteristics

Question 35

Define Alliteration

Answer 35

the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words

Question 36

Define Oxymoron

Answer 36

an expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined parable---a simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson

Question 37

Define solioquy

Answer 37

an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play

Question 38

Define Aside

Answer 38

to put something out of the way

Question 39

Define Monologue

Answer 39

a long speech by one actor in a play or movie

Question 40

Define Dialogue

Answer 40

conversation between two or more people

Question 41

Define Dramatic Irony

Answer 41

the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character

Question 42

Define Foil

Answer 42

a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character

Question 43

Define Pun

Answer 43

a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings

Question 44

Define Wordplay

Answer 44

a form of wit in which the words that are used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement

Question 45

Define Double Speak

Answer 45

is the distortion, changing or switching of words to make an unpleasant, tricky or otherwise negative situation not sound as awful

Question 46

Define "King of Cats"

Answer 46

Tybalt shares the same name as the character Tibert/Tybalt the "Prince of Cats" in Reynard the Fox, a point of mockery in the play.

Question 47

Define Protagonist

Answer 47

the leading character or one of the major characters or the hero or heroine in a drama

Question 48

Define Antagonist

Answer 48

a character, group of characters, or institution that represents the opposition against which the protagonist or protagonists must contend