<p>Name:______Block:_____ Romeo and Juliet – Act 5 Questions</p><p>Act 5, Scene 1 (pages 224 to 230)  Setting: a street in Mantua  Balthazar, Romeo’s servant, arrives in Mantua. Romeo is expecting to receive good news from him about Juliet and his family.  Balthazar then tells Romeo that is not the case as Juliet lies in the Capulet family tomb – dead. This is obviously not the news Romeo is expecting to hear, and he is devastated. Romeo asks Balthazar one more time if he has a letter for him from Friar Lawrence, and Balthazar says he does not. Romeo tells Balthazar to prepare to head back to Verona. As Balthazar leaves, Romeo decides that he will lie with Juliet tonight, thus he is planning to see Juliet one more time and then kill himself.  Romeo goes to an Apothecary (druggist) and buys poison from him. The Apothecary refuses at first because he can be put to death if he is caught selling illegal drugs. However, the Apothecary is poor, and Romeo offers him money. The Apothecary gives Romeo the poison and tells him that the poison will kill him almost immediately, even if he had the strength of twenty men.  Romeo takes the poison, and he heads back to Verona, promising to use the poison at Juliet’s grave.</p><p>Act 5, Scene 2 (pages 230 to 232)  Setting: Friar Lawrence’s cell  Friar John arrives at Friar Lawrence’s cell, so Friar Lawrence assumes that Friar John delivered the letter to Romeo detailing the plan for Juliet to fake her death and that Romeo is to meet her so they can run away and be happy.  Unfortunately, Friar John reports that Romeo did not receive the letter. Friar John was traveling with a friend and visiting someone who was sick. The health officials in the town thought the sick man had the plague, so they set up a quarantine – no one could get into the town and no one could leave the town. Thus, Friar John was stuck in the town and could not deliver the letter as planned.  Friar Lawrence sends another letter, has Friar John goes to get him a crowbar, and is headed to the Capulet tomb to remove Juliet, because she is going to wake up in the next three hours. </p><p>Act 5, Scene 3 (pages 232 to 256) 1. What is the setting of the scene? </p><p>2. What does Paris ask his Page to do? Why do you think he asks this?</p><p>3. What has Paris come to the tomb to do? What does he do when he hears his Page whistle? 4. What has Romeo come to the Capulet vault to do? What does he ask of Balthazar? What is Balthazar’s reaction to this/what does Balthazar do?</p><p>5. What does Paris think Romeo is at the Capulet vault to do? What action does Paris then take?</p><p>6. What does Romeo say he has come to the vault to do? Does Paris believe him?</p><p>7. Romeo and Paris fight. What is the result? What does one man request of the other?</p><p>8. Why doesn’t Romeo realize whom he has fought? What is his reaction when he learns who it is?</p><p>9. What is Romeo’s reaction to seeing Juliet’s “dead” body?</p><p>10. What is Romeo’s reaction to seeing Tybalt’s dead body?</p><p>11. What does Romeo do before he drinks the poison? 12. What does Friar Lawrence discover when he walks into the vault? What else occurs while he is standing in the vault?</p><p>13. Friar Lawrence makes several controversial decisions at this point in the play. Some important questions: What does Friar Lawrence suggest that Juliet do/what plan does he have for her? </p><p>Why does he not simply return her to her parents? </p><p>Why does he run out of the vault so quickly?</p><p>14. What does Juliet do when the Friar first exits the vault? What does she then do when she hears voices outside of the vault?</p><p>15. The First Watchman attempts to get to the bottom of what has happened in the Capulet vault. Which characters does the Watchman detain to attempt to get answers?</p><p>16. The Prince, Capulets, and Montague arrive at the vault. What reactions do Capulet and Lady Capulet have to the scene in the vault?</p><p>17. What does Montague say has happened to Lady Montague? What is Montague’s reaction to seeing Romeo’s dead body? 18. The Prince then brings Friar Lawrence and Balthazar forward to testify as to the events of that night. The Friar is the first to tell the Prince of the events of that night and the preceding days. Has the Friar told the truth? What is the Prince’s reaction?</p><p>19. What facts do Balthazar and Paris’s Page add to the investigation?</p><p>20. What is the Prince’s reaction after reading the letter Romeo wrote to his father?</p><p>21. What does the Prince say to Capulet and Montague when he calls them forward?</p><p>22. What do Capulet and Montague offer to one another?</p><p>23. The Prince has the final lines of the play. Summarize what he says. Do you think this is an effective way to end the play? Explain.</p>