Name: _______________________________________________ Dr. Mink English 1 Honors Period: __________________ Date: ____________________________ Romeo & Juliet Act 3 questions Answer each of the following questions, completely, in the space provided.
Scene 1:
1. At the beginning of the scene, why does Benvolio think that there will be a fight? (l. 1-4)
2. How does Mercutio describe Benvolio in lines 16-31?
3. When Tybalt and Mercutio first begin arguing, what does Benvolio try to convince them to do? (l. 51-54)
4. Why won’t Romeo fight Tybalt?
5. Why does Mercutio mean in saying, “A plague o’ both your houses”? (l. 110-113)
6. What does Romeo say that Juliet’s love has done to him? (l. 118-120)
7. When Benvolio relates to the Prince what happened, what does he say Romeo tried to before Mercutio was
killed? (l. 160-165)
8. Why does Lady Capulet accuse Benvolio of lying? (l. 185-188)
9. What is Romeo’s punishment for killing Tybalt?
Scene 2:
10. Why is Juliet so impatient for the nurse to return?
11. Describe Juliet’s rapidly changing attitudes toward Romeo in this scene.
12. What does the nurse promise to do for Juliet? What does Juliet give Nurse?
Scene 3:
13. How does Romeo react to the news of his banishment?
14. Romeo tells Friar Laurence that the priest cannot know or understand how Romeo feels. Why? (l. 67-71)
15. What argument does Friar Laurence use to prevent Romeo from killing himself? (l. 145-168)
16. What does the nurse give to Romeo?
Scene 4:
17. What does Capulet tell his wife to say to Juliet?
Scene 5:
18. Just as Romeo is about to descend the rope ladder and leave Juliet, what does Juliet say about the way
Romeo looks? (l. 54-57)
1819 Why does Lady Capulet think Juliet is crying? (l. 71-76)
20. When Lady Capulet threatens to send someone to Mantua to poison Romeo, what does Juliet say? (l.101107) Knowing that Juliet really loves Romeo, what does she mean by this?
21. After Lady Capulet breaks the news about Paris, what is Juliet’s response? (l. 126-128)
22. What is Capulet’s reaction to Juliet’s refusal? (l. 200-207)
23. If Juliet’s mother does not arrange to delay the marriage, what will Juliet do? (l. 211-213)
24. What is the nurse’s advice to Juliet? (l. 226-240)
25. How does Juliet plan to leave the house without the Nurse? (l. 244-247)
26. How does Juliet’s attitude toward the nurse change? (l. 248-252)
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).
27.
Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? An thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords.
Here’s my fiddlestick; here’s that shall make you dance. Zounds, consort!
28.
Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
To such a greeting. Villian am I none.
Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.
29.
He is a kinsman to the Montague.
Affection makes him false; he speaks not true.
Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,
And all those twenty could but kill one life.
I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give.
Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.
30.
O, I have bought the mansion of a love
But not possessed it, and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoyed. So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them.
31.
Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
Of my child’s love. I think she will be ruled
In all respects by me. Nay, More, I doubt it not.-
32.
Look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.
Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
33.
Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise:
And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend;
And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,
For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee,
Nor what is mine shall never do thee good.
Trust to’t. Bethink you. I’ll not be forsworn
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