Name:______Date:______Hr:______English 9
Romeo and Juliet Act III READING QUIZ – Briefly answer the following questions, being as clear and concise as possible. You do not have to write in complete sentences, but you must make sure you are writing in complete thoughts! (2 pts each)
1. How does Romeo contribute to Mercutio’s death?
2. What is Romeo’s reaction when Friar Laurence tells him that Escalus has banished him?
3. What is Friar Laurence’s plan for Romeo?
4. Why is Lord Capulet setting up a wedding between Juliet and Paris so quickly?
5. What does the nurse tell Juliet she should do after Juliet’s father threatens to disown her? What reasons does the nurse provide?
6. How is Juliet torn in two when she hears the news of Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s banishment?
7. Explain one example of dramatic irony from ACT III:
8. At the very end of Act III, what does Juliet tell the Nurse she is going to do at Friar Lawrence’s?
WHO SAID IT? Identify the speaker for each of the following passages from Act III.
9. “I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire. / The day is hot; the Capulets, abroad: / And if we meet we shall not ‘scape a brawl, / For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.” (III.i)
Who said it?______
10. “I beg for Justice, which thou, Prince, must give. / Romeo slew Tybalt. Romeo must not live.” (III.i
Who said it?______
11. “What devil art thou that dost torment me thus? / This torture should be roared in dismal hell. / Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but “ay,” / And that bare vowel I shall poison more / Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice.” (III.ii)
Who said it?______
12. “Monday! Ha, ha. Well, Wednesday is too soon, / O’ Thursday let it be. –O’ Thursday, tell her, / She shall be married to this noble earl.-- / Will you be ready? Do you like this haste?” (III.iv)
Who said it?______
13. “Now, by Saint Peter’s Church and Peter too. / He shall not make me there a joyful bride. / I wonder at this haste, that I must wed / Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo. / I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam, I will not marry yet.” (III.v)
Who said it?______
14. “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday, / or never after look me in the face. / Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me.” (III.v)
Who said it?______
15. “I think it best you married with the county. / Oh, he’s a lovely gentleman. / Romeo’s a dishclout to him… / Your first is dead, or ‘twere as good he were, / As living here and you no use of him.” (III.v)
Who said it?______
For the following two quotes, identify the speaker, translate the lines into your own words (line by line—do not over simplify) and then explain what is going on in the play when the lines are spoken. (5 points)
1. “Now, Tybalt, take the “villain” back again / That late thou gavest me, for Mercutio’s soul / Is but a little way above our heads, / Staying for thine to keep him company. / Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.” (III.i)
Speaker =
Line Translation:
What is going on?
2. “O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness! / Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, / Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law, / And turned that black word “death” to “banishment.” / This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.” (III.iii)
Speaker =
Line Translation:
What is going on?
Fill in the following chart based upon the two names provided. (10 points)