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by Sharon Service

Romeo and Juliet

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Answer all of the following questions in sentences on a separate sheet of looseleaf.

Act V

Scene 1
  1. Who is Balthasar?
     
  2. Which news does Romeo expect?
     
  3. Which news does Balthasar bring?
     
  4. Explain the term "apothecary."
     
  5. Was there a law in Mantua which controlled the sale of certain drugs? Quote the line which is proof.
     
  6. What does Romeo mean in lines 80-81?
     
      7. "There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
      Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
      Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."

Scene 2
  1. Why was Friar John detained? Quote the line which supports your answer.
     
  2. Did Friar John deliver the letter to Romeo?
     
  3. Which two things will Friar Laurence do?

Scene 3
  1. Define the words:
     
    1. obsequies   (line 16)
    2. inauspicious stars   (line 111)
    3. discern   (line 126)
    4. sepulchre   (line 140)
       
  2. Explain:
     
      3. "A greater power than we can contradict
      Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.
      Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;
      And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee
      Among a sisterhood of holy nuns."         (Lines 153-157)
       
  3. List in point form all the events which take place in Scene 3.
     
  4. Explain:
     
      5. "We see the ground whereon these woes do lie,
      But the true ground of all these piteous woes
      We cannot without circumstance descry."         (Lines 179-181)
       
  5. Explain:
     
      6. "Till we can clear these ambiguities
      And know their spring, their lead, their true descent;"       (Lines 217-218)
       
  6. What is Friar Laurence proposing in lines 266-269?
     
      7. "...and if aught in this

      Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
      Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,
      Unto the rigor of severest law."
       
  7. What does the Prince mean?
     
      8. "...Capulet, Montague,
      See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
      That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love."         (Lines 291-293)
       
  8. What does Capulet realize when he says: "Poor sacrifices of our enmity."    (Line 304)

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