Romeo and Juliet Act 4 and 5

Romeo thinks that Juliet is dead because

• Balthasar brings him news of her funeral.
• he receives a letter from the Nurse.
• he has dreamed about her death.
• Paris tells him in the graveyard.

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In Scene 2, Friar Laurence hurries to the Capulets’ tomb 

• so that he can hide from the Prince.
• to stop Romeo from killing Paris.
• because Balthasar told him Juliet was dead.
• to reach Juliet before she wakes up.

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Why is Paris at the cemetery?

• He hopes to prevent the Capulets from killing the Montagues.
• He wants to place flowers on Juliet’s grave.
• He plans to attack Romeo when he arrives.
• He has discovered Friar Laurence’s plot and wants to confront him.

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When Paris sees Romeo, he says, “This is that banish’d haughty Montague / That murdered my love’s cousin—with which grief / It is supposed the fair creature died” (Scene 3, lines 49–51). This is an example of dramatic irony because

• the audience knows Romeo did not actually kill Tybalt, but Paris does not know this.
• Paris uses the word “haughty” ironically, but the audience does not know this.
• Paris knows Juliet did not die in the way she was “supposed” to, but the audience does not.
• the audience knows the truth about Juliet’s grief and her fake death, but Paris does not.

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What does Romeo beg Paris to do?

• kill him
• call out the guard
• leave him alone
• find Friar Laurence

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When Romeo enters the tomb, he notices that Juliet

• is still beautiful.
• has been poisoned.
• is not actually dead.
• has vanished.

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Why does Friar Laurence leave Juliet alone in the tomb?

• She refuses to have anything more to do with him.
• He wants to teach her a lesson.
• The Prince has forbidden him from ever seeing her again.
• He is afraid of the guard.

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Juliet kisses Romeo in the tomb because she

• wants to prove to everyone that she will always love only Romeo.
• believes that kissing Romeo might bring him back to life.
• hopes to drain all the poison out of Romeo.
• thinks that Romeo has poison on his lips and the kiss will kill her.

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Why do Capulet and Montague stop their feud at the end of the play?

• They realize that their hatred has destroyed their own children.
• No one in either family is left to continue fighting for them.
• They have finally heeded Friar Laurence’s sound advice.
• The Prince will punish them severely if they do not end their feud.

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The play ends with the following lines: “For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” Shakespeare probably ends the play with a rhyme because he wants to

• mock the Prince’s pomposity.
• demonstrate his formidable literary talents.
• make the ending more memorable.
• provide the audience with a little comic relief.

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