1. Romeo and Juliet Acts 4 and 5 Review
Review the following questions and answers. Write down questions/answers you do not know, and spend time focusing your studying on those.
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2. To Plan his wedding to Juliet
Why is Paris at Friar Lawrence’s cell at the beginning of Act IV?

3. 42 hours
How long is the sleeping potion supposed to take effect?

4. The Capulet Vault
Where will Juliet be placed once her family thinks she is dead?

5. Romeo
According to Friar Lawrence’s plan, who will be waiting for Juliet when she wakes from the potion?

6. Stab herself with a dagger
If the potion does not work, what back-up plan does Juliet have?

7. Friar John will deliver a letter to him that explains what is going on
How is Romeo supposed to know about Juliet and Friar Lawrence’s plan with the potion?

8. Thursday
On what day of the week is Juliet supposed to marry Paris?

9. Nurse
On the morning of the wedding, who goes to wake Juliet?

10. Friar Lawrence
Which character tells the Capulet family that Juliet is better off in heaven?

11. Everyone begins arranging a funeral
How do the wedding preparations change after Juliet is found dead?

12. He is devistated
How does County Paris react to Juliet’s death?

13. he notices her body is cold and her joints are stiff
How does Lord Capulet know Juliet is “dead”?

14. Balthasar
Who brings news to Romeo that Juliet is dead?

15. poison
What does Romeo go purchase once he hears that Juliet is dead?

16. 3 hours
How long will it be before Juliet is supposed to wake up at the beginning of Act V?

17. Friar John is not allowed into Mantua because he has been exposed to the Plague
In the text version of the play, why does Romeo not get the letter?

18. Paris
In the film version of the play, which character do we not see die at Juliet’s tomb who does die in the text version of the play?

19. He thinks Romeo is there to disturb Juliet’s body Romeo told Paris to go away and listen to the warning of a madman He does not think any Montagues should be at a Capulet vault
Why does Paris fight with Romeo at the Capulet vault?

20. He acts before he thinks things through
Romeo’s fatal flaw is which of the following?

21. Mercutio, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, Paris, Lady Montague
Who has died by the end of the play (not just in Act V)?

22. To his cell
When Juliet awakens from the potion, where does Friar Lawrence want to take her?

23. by stabbing herself with Romeo’s dagger
How does Juliet kill herself?

24. Friar Lawrence
When the watchmen (guards) arrive at the Capulet vault, whom do they suspect is the murderer?

25. A letter Romeo wrote, Balthasar, Friar Lawrence, and the Page Boy
At the end of the play, Prince Escalus discovers every detail about what happened from which four accounts?

26. Everyone has already been punished because they have all lost someone close to them
When Prince Escalus says at the end of the play, “All are punishéd,” what does he mean? (V.iii.295)

27. Romeo’s banishment from Verona
What event is the climax of the play?

28. Love, Destiny, Choice
What are some of the main themes in the play?

29. Personification
What literary devices is Shakespeare using when Romeo says to Juliet’s “dead” body:
“Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, and death’s pale flag is not advanced there” (V.iii.92-6).

30. Dramatic
An example of what type of irony is when Romeo takes his own life because he thinks Juliet is dead, but we (the audience) know that she is not.

31. effect
Shakespearean tragedies have a delicate balance of cause and ________.

32. restored
In a Shakespearean tragedy, the order of life is disrupted and must be _________ by the end of the play

33. A distant time and place (long ago and far away)
The setting in a Shakespearean tragedy is usually where and when?

34. In death of several of the main characters
How do Shakespearean tragedies usually end?

35. It will be over!
What will happen to the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues now that Romeo and Juliet are dead?