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Romeo and Juliet Study Guide
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Prologue and Act I: Scene i Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary What is the point of the prologue?
Where does the play take place?
Why does Shakespeare start the play with sexual humor?
How does the Prince affect the conflict between the two families?
What is wrong with Romeo?
What is unrequited love?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Prologue and Act I: Scene ii Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary What are Capulet and Paris planning?
Why does Capulet want to delay things? (Two reasons)?
With whom is Romeo in love?
How does Romeo find out about the Capulet ball?
Reflections/Summary Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Prologue and Act I: Scene iii Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary How old is Juliet?
When is her birthday?
What is the month and approximate day of the scene?
What does Lady Capulet propose in lines 62-66?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Prologue and Act I: Scene iv Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary What is Romeo foreshadowing in his comments?
Who is Queen Mab?
What is Mercutio trying to tell Romeo about dreams?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Prologue and Act I: Scene v Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary What kind of host is Capulet?
What is Romeo’s reaction to Juliet?
Who is the villain of the scene?
Why can’t the villain attack Romeo?
Who tells Romeo and Juliet who the other is? Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act II: Scene i Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Benvolio and Mercutio cannot find Romeo. Where has he gone and how does he get there? Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act II: Scene ii Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary What is a soliloquy and how is it used in scene ii?
Why doesn’t Romeo speak to Juliet when he sees her on the balcony? (Two reasons)
What does Romeo say to Juliet regarding his name?
What plans do Romeo and Juliet make after they have professed their love for each other? Be specific!
Who proposes marriage to whom? Quote the lines.
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act II: Scene iii Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary What is Friar Laurence’s special skill or area of knowledge?
The fact that Romeo is visiting the Friar so early in the morning tells the Friar what about Romeo?
The Friar draws a general conclusion about young men from the fact that Romeo was in love with Rosaline and now wants Juliet. What is this conclusion?
Why does the Friar agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
How will Romeo get to Juliet? Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act II: Scene iv Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Who has sent Romeo a letter and what does it contain?
How has Romeo’s mood changed from the last time he saw his friends and who teases him?
What is shrifts?
How will Romeo get to Juliet?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Prologue and Act II: Scene v & vi Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Scene v: The Nurse returns and teases Juliet, then explains the plan.
Scene vi What is the Friar’s caution?
What is Romeo’s Tragic Flaw?
How does this scene end?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act III: Scene i Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Why does Benvolio want to go home? (Two reasons)
Who is Tybalt looking for and why is he looking for him?
Why does Romeo refuse to fight with Tybalt?
Who does fight with Tybalt?
Why does “he” fight with Tybalt?
According to Mercutio, what does Tybalt’s name mean?
How is Mercutio stabbed?
In his last speeches, Mercutio repeats one sentence. What is it and what is the effect of this repetition?
What effect does Mercutio’s death have on Romeo
What is the outcome of Romeo’s fight with Tybalt? What is Romeo’s punishment?
How has his punishment changed from the Prince’s original decree and why?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act III: Scene ii Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary What news does the nurse have for Juliet?
At first, who does Juliet think the Nurse is talking about?
Instead of hearing “Romeo is banished,” What would Juliet rather hear?
What did Juliet send with the nurse to give to Romeo?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act III: Scene iii Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary To Romeo, why is banishment worse than death?
Friar Laurence gives three reasons why Romeo should be happy. What are they? Why is Romeo happy to get the ring? What has he been afraid of? What is Friar Laurence’s final word to Romeo concerning his banishment? (The end of the scene)
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act III: Scene iv Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Paris has been visiting the Capulets. Juliet has not come down to join them. What do the Capulets think is the reason for this?
What day has Capulet set for the marriage of Paris and Juliet?
What is Dramatic Irony?
Where is dramatic irony present in this scene?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act III: Scene v Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary What is the setting for this scene? (time and place)
What is the argument about the nightingale and the lark?
What news does Lady Capulet give Juliet? (Two pieces) What advice does the Nurse give Juliet? Why? What has Juliet decided to do at the end of Act III?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act IV: Scene i Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Why is Paris visiting the Friar?
Why is Paris in such a hurry to marry Juliet?
If Friar Laurence cannot help Juliet avoid the wedding, what does she vow to do?
Explain in detail what the Friar’s “remedy” is and how it works?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act IV: Scene ii Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary When Capulet asks Juliet where she has been, where does she say she was and why she was there?
Capulet changes the wedding day to when?
Why is that a problem?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act IV: Scene iii & iv Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Scene iii Juliet has some thoughts about taking the potion. She imagines four things might happen to her. What are they?
What does Juliet see that helps her to take the potion?
Scene iv:
Preparations are made for the wedding. Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act IV: Scene v Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary After seeing Juliet, how has Capulet’s attitude toward his daughter changed?
How does he know she’s dead?
What has Capulet decided to do with the wedding preparations?
How does the act end and why?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act V: Scene i Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary What is Romeo’s mood at the beginning of this scene? Why?
Where is Romeo?
Who brings news of Juliet’s death? What does Romeo order Balthasar to do?
The apothecary breaks one of Mantua’s laws. What law and Reflections/Summarywhy?
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act V: Scene ii Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Why did Friar John fail to deliver Friar Laurence’s letter?
What does Friar Laurence plan to do with Juliet? Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Act V: Scene iii Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary What is the setting of scene iii? (time and place)
What is Paris doing there?
Romeo commands Balthasar to leave. Why doesn’t he go?
Why does Paris challenge Romeo?
Who is the first to discover the dead Romeo and Paris?
If Romeo had not been so impulsive to drink the poison, what might he have noticed about Juliet?
What does Friar Laurence suggest as a course of action for Juliet? Why does Juliet kiss Romeo?
How does Juliet die? Lines 210-11 tell of another death. Who and (supposedly) why?
Who explains the suicides to the parents and the Prince?
What does Romeo’s letter say?
What tribute will Lord Montague pay Juliet?
What four accounts does the Prince hear?
Reflections/Summary
Topic: Romeo & Juliet: Review Date: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Name three innocent victims of Romeo and Juliet’s love?
When was Shakespeare born and when did he die?
Where was Shakespeare born?
How many children did he have?
What was the name of his wife?
What is the controversy surrounding Shakespeare?
Reflections/Summary