ROMEO AND JULIET
Act Three Study Guide
1.
Who said it?
a. “A plague on both your houses!”
b. “O, I am fortune’s fool.”
c.
“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.”
d. “Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?”
e. “O God, I have an ill-divining soul!”
2.
Why won’t Romeo fight Tybalt?
3.
What does Mercutio mean when he says, “A plague o’ both your houses”? Why does he say
this?
4. Why doesn’t Lady Capulet believe Benvolio’s story? What does she call for?
5.
What is Romeo’s punishment for killing Tybalt? What is Romeo’s reaction to this punishment?
6. What three reasons does Friar Lawrence give Romeo for being happy?
7.
What does Capulet tell his wife to say to Juliet?
8. Why does Lady Capulet thing Juliet is crying?
9. What does Lady Capulet tell Juliet she will do to Romeo?
10. How does Juliet respond to the news that she will marry Paris on Thursday? How does Capulet
react to Juliet?
11. What advice does the Nurse give to Juliet? How does this change their relationship?
12. Identify the technique:
a. “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
b. “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove feathered raven. Wolvish-ravening lamb! . . . . .A
damned saint, and honorable villain!”
c. “Hadst thou no poison mixed, . . . . “
d. “Me thinks I see thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either
my eyesight fails, or thou lookst pale.”