Romeo and Juliet Act III Study Questions Act III, Scene 1 1.

What does Mercutio say about Benvolios character? From what you have observed, is this true? Explain. 2.What do Mercutios answers to Tybalt show about Mercutios character?

3. How does Romeo try to stop the fight? What is the result of Romeos interference?

4. What does Romeo predict for the future after learning of Mercutios death? How does this prophecy immediately come true? 5.What reasons does Benvolio give to convince Romeo to r un away? 6.Is Benvolios account of the fighting entirely accurate? Explain your answer.

7.a. What is Lady Capulets immediate reaction to Benvolios testimony?

b. According to Lady Capulet, what really happened?

c. What can you conclude about Lady Capulet from her statements?

8.a. How does the Princes punishment differ from the punishment he threatened in Act I, Scene 1? b. The Prince states the principle behind his action in line 190. What does it mean?

9. The climax of the play is the turning point and the readers can usually discover how the conflicts will be resolved. Scene 1 of Act III includes the climax of Romeo and Juliet. a. What change does the scene bring about in Romeo and Juliets situation? b. What do you think will happen as a result of the fight?

Romeo and Juliet Act III, Scene 2 1.What is Juliet impatient for?

2.What misunderstanding occurs between Juliet and the Nurse?

3.a. What does Juliet conclude about Romeo when she first learns that he killed Tybalt?

b. What words of Friar Laurence does her speech sound like?

c. What information about the incident does Juliet not know?

4.What broad conclusions does the Nurse draw from the incident?

5.a. What wish does the Nurse utter?

b. In your own words, tell how Juliet reacts.

6.How long have Romeo and Juliet been married? 7.a. What event does Juliet say would be preferable to Romeos exile? b. Why does she wish for such a thing?

Romeo and Juliet Act III, Scene 3 1.Romeo and Friar Laurence feel differently about the Princes punishment of Romeo. How does each feel?

2.Why wont Romeo listen to Friar Laurence?

3.For what five things does Friar Laurence scold Romeo?

4.a. What three gifts does Friar Laurence accuse Romeo of misusing?

b. For what three reasons does Friar Laurence say Romeo should be happy?

5.What is Friar Laurences plan for Romeo?

Act III, Scene 4

1.What plans do Juliets parents make for her?

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Act III, Scene 5 1.How are the lark and nightingale used in this scene? 2.What foreboding does Juliet have?

3.a. How does Lady Capulet interpret Juliets statements about Romeo?

b. What do readers realize the statements really are?

4.a. What reason does Juliet give for putting off the marriage?

b. What sentence with a double meaning does Juliet use to describe her intentions?

5. In your own words, describe how Capulet reacts to Juliets refusal to marry Paris. What choice does Capulet give Juliet? 6.What does Juliet beg of her mother?

7.What advice does the Nurse give Juliet? What is her reasoning?

8.a. What sudden change does Juliet apparently undergo?

b. Why doesnt she tell the Nurse the truth?

c. What does Juliet really intend to do?

Romeo and Juliet- Act III Quotes For each quote, tell three things: A) Who said it? B) To whom? C)Significance/ meaning of the quote. Label your answers A, B, C under the quotation.

1. Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford/No better term than this: thou art a villain.

2. No, tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but tis enough, twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

3.A plague a both your houses!/They have made worms meat of me

4. I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give./Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.

5.Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say death;/For exile hath more terror in his look,/Much more than death. Do not say banishment.

6. Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;/Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,/Take him and cut him out in little stars,/And he will make the face of heaven so fine/That all the world will be in love with night

7 .It was the lark, the herald of the morn;/No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks/Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east./Nights candles are burnt out, and jocund day/Stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops./I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

8. Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,/But fettle your fine joints gainst Thursday next/To go with Paris to Saint Peters Church.