Name: _______________________________________________ Dr. Mink English 1 Period: __________________ Date: ____________________________ Romeo & Juliet Act 2 questions Answer each of the following questions, completely, in the space provided. Use complete sentences where
needed.
Scene 1:
1. What does Mercutio say about “blind love”?
Scene 2:
2. When Juliet appears on her balcony, what does Romeo compare her to? List everything he compares her to
(including, but not limited to, “the sun”).
3. When Juliet leans her cheek on her hand, what does Romeo say?
4. Unaware of his presence, what does Juliet ask Romeo to do so that they can be together?
5. Juliet states: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / by any other word, would smell as sweet. / So
Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, / retain that dear perfection which he owes / without that title.”
Explain what Juliet means about names.
6. Juliet asks Romeo how he got into the Capulet orchard and found her, and why he would risk his life to do so.
What is Romeo’s response to these questions?
7. Why is Juliet embarrassed? (see her monologue, starting at line 90)
8. Juliet is going to send someone to Romeo on the following day for what purpose?
Scene 3
9. What has Friar Laurence been out gathering in his basket?
10. Explain lines 21-22: “Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / And vice sometime by action dignified”?
Name: _______________________________________________ Dr. Mink English 1 Period: __________________ Date: ____________________________ Romeo & Juliet Act 2 questions Use the notes and a dictionary to help you.
11. What does Friar Laurence mean when he says to Romeo, “Young men’s love then lies / not truly in their
hearts, but in their eyes.”? (lines 71-72)
12. Friar Laurence agrees to perform the marriage ceremony for Romeo and Juliet for what reason?
Scene 4
13. What has Tybalt sent to the Montague house? (lines 7-10) Why would he send this?
14. According to Mercutio, what kind of man is Tybalt? (lines 20-27…use the notes on the facing page for
help!)
15. What is the nurse saying to Romeo in lines 165-174?
16. How is Juliet to arrange to meet Romeo?
Scene 5
17. The nurse is supposed to be gone only a half hour, but she is actually gone for how long?
18. How is the nurse behaving that is frustrating to Juliet?
Scene 6:
19. What does Friar Laurence mean when he says, “Therefore, love moderately; long love doth so”?
Name: _______________________________________________ Dr. Mink English 1 Period: __________________ Date: ____________________________ Romeo & Juliet Act 2 questions Identify the speaker and explain the quote (what is being said, the circumstances surrounding the statement,
and what it reveals about the speaker and/or subject).
20.
21.
I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes,
By her high forehead, and her scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in thy likeness thou appear to us.
It is my lady. O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold. ‘Tis not to me she speaks.
22.
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
23.
I should have been more strange, I must
confess,
But that thou overheard’st ere I was ware
My true-love passion. Therefore pardon me,
And not impute this yielding to light love,
Which the dark night hath so discovered.
24.
‘Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone.
And yet no farther than a wanton’s bird,
That lets it hop a little from his hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silken thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty.
25.
For naught so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give;
Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair
use,
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.
26.
I pray thee, chide me not. Her I love now
Doth grace for grace and love for love allow.
The other did not so.
27.
O, there is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that
would fain lay knife aboard,
but she, good soul, had as lief see a toad, a very
toad, as see him. I anger her
sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer
man, but I’ll warrant you, when
I say so, she looks as pale as any clout in the
versal world.
28.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
[And his to me.]
But old folks, many feign as they were dead,
Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead.
29.
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
They are but beggars that can count their worth,
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth