Romeo and Juliet Act IV and Act V Reading Questions

1. Why does Juliet go to the Friar’s cell?

2. If the Friar cannot help her, what does she intend to do?

3. What remedy does the Friar have to the dilemma? How does he feel about his plan?

4. Does Juliet agree to the plan?

5. When Juliet appears before her father, how does she conduct herself?

6. Why does she promise obedience to her father?

7. Why does Lord Capulet change the wedding date?

8. In her soliloquy, what does Juliet reveal of her feelings, hopes, and fears?

9. What is Juliet’s condition when the Nurse attempts to wake her?

10. In Capulet’s description of death, what poetic element is used?

ACT V

11. Where does scene I take place?

12. Describe Romeo’s dream.

13. What news does Balthasar bring from Verona?

14. What is Romeo’s initial emotion upon hearing the news? What does he decide to do?

15. Describe the apothecary and his shop.

16. What does Romeo say about gold? What does this mean?

17. Upon what mission has Friar John been sent?

18. Why is Paris at Juliet’s tomb?

19. What does Romeo send (with Balthasar) to his father?

20. What excuse does Romeo give to Balthasar for going into the tomb?

21. What happens between Romeo and Paris? Why?

22. What dream does Balthasar have while sleeping under the yew tree?

23. Whom does the Friar find in the tomb? In what condition?

24. What does Juliet say upon awakening?

25. When Friar Laurence runs from the tomb, what do we learn of his character?

26. What does Juliet say to her dead husband? What does she do?

27. Whom do the watch arrest? Why?

28. What unexpected fact does Lord Montague announce?

29. Why is the letter to Romeo’s father important?

30. With what final words does the Prince address Lord Capulet and Lord Montague?

31. Does the Prince take any of the blame for what has happened? Why?

32. What happens between the Montague and Capulet families?

33. List the characters that die (in order).