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Romeo and Juliet Act 1 ~ Study Questions 1. What is Juliet’s family name? 2. What is Romeo’s family name? 3. In what city does the story take place? 4. What starts the fight between the servants? 5. Who attempts to stop the fighting in the streets? 6. Who is Tybalt? 7. Does Tybalt attempt to stop the fighting? 8. How do you think Lady Capulet and Lady Montague feel about the fighting? 9. How do the Prince and the people of Verona feel about the fighting? 10. Is the Prince related to either family? Who is he related to? 11. Do we ever learn what started the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues? 12. Why is Romeo so depressed at the beginning of the play? Do you feel Romeo should be depressed? Explain your answer. 13. Does Romeo believe that Benvolio will take his mind off of Rosaline? Explain your answer 14. Who is the man who first asks to marry Juliet? 15. How does Capulet feel about this proposal? 16. How old is Juliet? How do we learn her age? 17. How does Romeo find out
about the Capulet party? 18. Why would Romeo want to go to a party given by his enemy? 19. Why does Benvolio want Romeo to go to the party? 20. Who speaks to Juliet about Paris’ proposal? For what reason? Study Questions Romeo and Juliet Act 2 1. Do Benvolio and Mercutio know that Romeo is now in love with Juliet? 2. Does Romeo hide from Benvolio and Mercutio after the party? Why? 3. How does Mercutio feel about love? 4. How does Romeo find Juliet’s room? 5. Does Juliet know that Romeo can hear her when she confesses her love for him? 6. What is more important to Romeohis name or Juliet’s love? How do you know this? 7. Is Romeo safe in the garden? Why or why not? 8. What do Romeo and Juliet decide to do about their love? 9. What is Friar Laurence doing when Romeo finds him? 10. What is Friar Laurence’s reaction when Romeo tells him that he now loves Juliet instead of Rosaline? 11. Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet? 12. Who challenges Romeo to a
duel? Why? 13. What does the Nurse think of Romeo? Justify you answer 14. Does the Nurse try to keep Juliet from going to Friar Laurence’s cell? 15. Why does the Nurse get a ladder? 16. What does Friar Laurence warn Romeo about love? 17. Does Friar Laurence try to delay the marriage? Why or why not? 18. Does the couple actually get married in one of the scenes, or does the audience have to infer it? 19. Does anyone besides Friar Laurence know about the marriage? Study Questions Romeo and Juliet 1. Who is Tybalt looking for at the beginning of the act? 2. Who suggests that they go somewhere else to fight? 3. Why does Romeo refuse to fight with Tybalt? 4. Who eventually ends up fighting? 5. Which person in the play is Mercutio related to? 6. How does Mercutio get killed? 7. Whose fault is it when Mercutio dies? 8. Whom does Mercutio curse when he dies? 9. Who finally kills Tybalt? Why? 10. Who tells the Prince what happens? 11. What is Romeo’s punishment? 12. What does
Lady Capulet say about Romeo’s punishment? 13. Who tells Juliet what happened? Act 3 14. How does Juliet feel at first? 15. What does Juliet send to Romeo by way of the Nurse? 16. Where does Romeo hide? 17. How does Romeo feel about his punishment? 18. Romeo plans to leave Verona Where does he plan to go? 19. Capulet arranges Juliet’s marriage to whom? 20. Why does Capulet arrange the marriage when at first he had refused? 21. Where will Romeo and Juliet meet? 22. For whom does everyone think that Juliet is crying? 23. For whom is Juliet actually crying? 24. What does the lark mean to Romeo and Juliet? 25. Why does Juliet say the lark is a nightingale? 26. What does Capulet threaten to do to Juliet is she refuses to marry Paris? 27. At this point what is the Nurse’s advice about marrying Paris? 28. Why does Juliet want to see Friar Laurence? 29. Why does Juliet tell the Nurse she wants to see Friar Laurence? 30. Why does she lie to the Nurse? Romeo and Juliet
Act 4 Study Guide 1. How does Friar Laurence feel about Juliet & Paris’ marriage? 2. Whom does Paris see at Friar Laurence’s cell? 3. To whom is Paris related? 4. What does Juliet say she will do if the friar can’t help her? 5. Whose idea is it to use the sleeping potion? 6. How will Romeo know what is happening? 7. What will the sleeping potion do? 8. Where is Romeo? 9. How does Juliet feel about the plan at the end of the scene? 10. What does Juliet tell her father when she returns home? 11. Why does Juliet sleep alone? 12. What are Juliet’s fears before drinking the potion? 13. What event is the family preparing for the next morning? 14. Who finds Juliet? 15. What does the wedding feast become? Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Study Guide 1. Who tells Romeo of Juliet’s “death?” 2. How does Romeo plan to kill himself? 3. Where does he get the poison? 4. Who was supposed to deliver the message to Romeo? 5. Why wasn’t the letter delivered? 6. Who is the first to
arrive at Juliet’s tomb? 7. Who goes to the tomb with Romeo? 8. Why does Paris think Romeo is at the tomb? 9. What happens between Romeo & Paris at the tomb? 10. What does Paris ask Romeo to do with his body? 11. How does Romeo die? 12. Who finds Romeo’s body? 13. Who tells Juliet about why Romeo is not at the tomb when she awakes? 14. Why would Juliet not leave the tomb? 15. Why does Friar Laurence run away? 16. How does Juliet die? 17. Who tells everyone the events that led to the death of Romeo and Juliet? 18. How do the Montagues and the Capulets react to the events? 19. Do they continue with the feud?
about the Capulet party? 18. Why would Romeo want to go to a party given by his enemy? 19. Why does Benvolio want Romeo to go to the party? 20. Who speaks to Juliet about Paris’ proposal? For what reason? Study Questions Romeo and Juliet Act 2 1. Do Benvolio and Mercutio know that Romeo is now in love with Juliet? 2. Does Romeo hide from Benvolio and Mercutio after the party? Why? 3. How does Mercutio feel about love? 4. How does Romeo find Juliet’s room? 5. Does Juliet know that Romeo can hear her when she confesses her love for him? 6. What is more important to Romeohis name or Juliet’s love? How do you know this? 7. Is Romeo safe in the garden? Why or why not? 8. What do Romeo and Juliet decide to do about their love? 9. What is Friar Laurence doing when Romeo finds him? 10. What is Friar Laurence’s reaction when Romeo tells him that he now loves Juliet instead of Rosaline? 11. Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet? 12. Who challenges Romeo to a
duel? Why? 13. What does the Nurse think of Romeo? Justify you answer 14. Does the Nurse try to keep Juliet from going to Friar Laurence’s cell? 15. Why does the Nurse get a ladder? 16. What does Friar Laurence warn Romeo about love? 17. Does Friar Laurence try to delay the marriage? Why or why not? 18. Does the couple actually get married in one of the scenes, or does the audience have to infer it? 19. Does anyone besides Friar Laurence know about the marriage? Study Questions Romeo and Juliet 1. Who is Tybalt looking for at the beginning of the act? 2. Who suggests that they go somewhere else to fight? 3. Why does Romeo refuse to fight with Tybalt? 4. Who eventually ends up fighting? 5. Which person in the play is Mercutio related to? 6. How does Mercutio get killed? 7. Whose fault is it when Mercutio dies? 8. Whom does Mercutio curse when he dies? 9. Who finally kills Tybalt? Why? 10. Who tells the Prince what happens? 11. What is Romeo’s punishment? 12. What does
Lady Capulet say about Romeo’s punishment? 13. Who tells Juliet what happened? Act 3 14. How does Juliet feel at first? 15. What does Juliet send to Romeo by way of the Nurse? 16. Where does Romeo hide? 17. How does Romeo feel about his punishment? 18. Romeo plans to leave Verona Where does he plan to go? 19. Capulet arranges Juliet’s marriage to whom? 20. Why does Capulet arrange the marriage when at first he had refused? 21. Where will Romeo and Juliet meet? 22. For whom does everyone think that Juliet is crying? 23. For whom is Juliet actually crying? 24. What does the lark mean to Romeo and Juliet? 25. Why does Juliet say the lark is a nightingale? 26. What does Capulet threaten to do to Juliet is she refuses to marry Paris? 27. At this point what is the Nurse’s advice about marrying Paris? 28. Why does Juliet want to see Friar Laurence? 29. Why does Juliet tell the Nurse she wants to see Friar Laurence? 30. Why does she lie to the Nurse? Romeo and Juliet
Act 4 Study Guide 1. How does Friar Laurence feel about Juliet & Paris’ marriage? 2. Whom does Paris see at Friar Laurence’s cell? 3. To whom is Paris related? 4. What does Juliet say she will do if the friar can’t help her? 5. Whose idea is it to use the sleeping potion? 6. How will Romeo know what is happening? 7. What will the sleeping potion do? 8. Where is Romeo? 9. How does Juliet feel about the plan at the end of the scene? 10. What does Juliet tell her father when she returns home? 11. Why does Juliet sleep alone? 12. What are Juliet’s fears before drinking the potion? 13. What event is the family preparing for the next morning? 14. Who finds Juliet? 15. What does the wedding feast become? Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Study Guide 1. Who tells Romeo of Juliet’s “death?” 2. How does Romeo plan to kill himself? 3. Where does he get the poison? 4. Who was supposed to deliver the message to Romeo? 5. Why wasn’t the letter delivered? 6. Who is the first to
arrive at Juliet’s tomb? 7. Who goes to the tomb with Romeo? 8. Why does Paris think Romeo is at the tomb? 9. What happens between Romeo & Paris at the tomb? 10. What does Paris ask Romeo to do with his body? 11. How does Romeo die? 12. Who finds Romeo’s body? 13. Who tells Juliet about why Romeo is not at the tomb when she awakes? 14. Why would Juliet not leave the tomb? 15. Why does Friar Laurence run away? 16. How does Juliet die? 17. Who tells everyone the events that led to the death of Romeo and Juliet? 18. How do the Montagues and the Capulets react to the events? 19. Do they continue with the feud?
When reading, most of us just let a story wash over us, getting lost in the world of the book rather than paying attention to the individual elements of the plot or writing. However, in English class, our teachers ask us to look at the mechanics of the writing.
