Question 1

Where is this scene set?

Accepted Answer

Mantua

Question 2

What does Romeo's servant, Balthasar, tell him?

Accepted Answer

That Juliet is dead

Question 3

What did Romeo dream?

Accepted Answer

That Juliet found Romeo dead and kissed him awake to be an emperor

Question 4

What does Balthasar suggest to Romeo?

Accepted Answer

Tells Romeo to be patient

Question 5

What is Romeo looking for? Why?

Accepted Answer

The apothecary because he wants to buy a poison to kill himself

Question 6

Why does Romeo have trouble getting the poison?

Accepted Answer

Because it is illegal for the apothecary to sell it. The apothecary would be sentenced to death if he sold them to Romeo

Question 7

How much does Romeo offer for the poison?

Accepted Answer

40 Ducats

Question 8

Why does the apothecary sell Romeo the poison?

Accepted Answer

Because the apothecary is very poor

Question 9

Where does Romeo decide to go?

Accepted Answer

Back to Verona to Juliet's tomb

Question 10

Who did Friar Laurence send to Mantua to inform Romeo of Juliet's plan?

Accepted Answer

Friar John

Question 11

What kept Friar John from seeing Romeo?

Accepted Answer

The guards wouldn't let him in because of the plague; they were afraid Frair John would infect them

Question 12

What must Friar Laurence do now?

Accepted Answer

Rushes to Juliet's tomb so she doesn't wake up alone

Question 13

Why is Paris at the churchyard?

Accepted Answer

To bring flowers to Juliet

Question 14

What does Romeo tell Balthasar to do? What does Balthasar actually do?

Accepted Answer

Tells Balthasar to flee, but he hides in the bushes instead

Question 15

To what does Romeo compare the tomb?

Accepted Answer

A womb of death

Question 16

What does Paris think of Romeo?

Accepted Answer

He thinks he has come to desecrate (disrespect) Capulets' tomb

Question 17

What happens when Paris confronts Romeo?

Accepted Answer

Romeo tells him to leave or he will kill him, but Paris continues to pursue Romeo

Question 18

Who is slain? Who is the slayer? What does he do with the dead body?

Accepted Answer

Paris is slain. Romeo was the slayer. Romeo drags Paris' body into the crypt

Question 19

What does Friar Laurence ask Juliet to do?

Accepted Answer

He asks her to leave the crypt and he will put her in a nunnery

Question 20

What does Juliet do?

Accepted Answer

Stabs herself to death

Question 21

After the watchman arrives, who comes to the tomb?

Accepted Answer

The prince

Question 22

What has happened to Lady Montague?

Accepted Answer

She died from grief because of Romeo's exile

Question 23

Who tells the truth about Romeo and Juliet?

Accepted Answer

Friar Laurence

Question 24

Why does Prince Escalus say, "All are punished"?

Accepted Answer

Because both families lost loved ones, but the Prince lost a kinsman, too, in Paris.

Question 25

How do Lord Capulet and Montague react to the deaths?

Accepted Answer

They end their feud and Lord Capulet decides to pay for a statue of Romeo and Montague will construct one of Juliet

Question 26

What final words sum up the play?

Accepted Answer

"For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo

Question 27

arbitrate

Accepted Answer

reach a settlement

Question 28

solace

Accepted Answer

comfort or consolation in times of distress

Question 29

presage

Accepted Answer

a sign or warning that something bad will happen

Question 30

penury

Accepted Answer

extreme poverty

Question 31

impeach

Accepted Answer

call into question the integrity orr validity of a practice

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