Romeo and Juliet, Act IV

In Act IV of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, what is the true reason Friar Lawrence does not encourage Paris in his plan to marry Juliet?

• The wedding plans are too rushed.

• Juliet is already married to Romeo.

• Friar Lawrence does not like Paris.

• Juliet will be dead before the wedding.

What important detail about the Friar from earlier in the play is more meaningful in Act IV?

• He is a relative of the Prince

• He knows where Romeo is in Mantua

• He is an expert in medicinal uses of plants

• He is 65 years old

What is the most likely meaning of lamentable?

• expected

• regrettable

• surprising

• forgettable

Which of the following situations best describes how someone might act if extremely distressed?

• He looked thoughtfully at the article, wondering what it meant for the city.

• She paced up and down the room, wringing her hands and crying softly to herself.

• She hummed to herself as she gathered her tools and set to work on her new project.

• He walked purposely along the street, confident he would be welcomed by his friends.

What is the meaning of the word melancholy?

• tired

• happy

• sad

• hopeful

At the beginning of Act IV, Scene i, of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Paris reports to Friar Lawrence that Juliet is weeping. What is the true cause of her sadness?

• Juliet regrets her strong feelings of love for Paris.

• Juliet grieves over her rash act of marrying Romeo

• Juliet loves Romeo and does not want to marry Paris.

• Juliet wishes she did not have to choose between Romeo and Paris.

Which line from Act IV best supports the idea that Juliet acts apologetically (sorry) when she comes home from seeing the Friar?

• Capulet. Well, he may chance to do some good on her. / A peevish self-willed harlotry it is

• Juliet. Where I have learnt me to repent the sin / Of disobedient opposition / To you and your behests, and am enjoined / By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here / To beg your pardon….

• Capulet. I’ll not to bed tonight; let me alone. / I’ll play the housewife for this once. What, ho! / They are all forth; well, I will walk myself / To County Paris, to prepare up him / Against tomorrow….

• Juliet. Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse, / I pray thee, leave me to my self tonight; / For I have need of many orisons / To move the heavens to smile upon my state.

Which of these quotations from Juliet’s speeches in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, is an example of dramatic irony?

• Nurse, will you go with me into my closet / To help me sort such needful ornaments / As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?

• How if, when I am laid into the tomb, / I wake before the time that Romeo / Come to redeem me?

• O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, / Environèd with all these hideous fears, / And madly play with my forefathers’ joints?

• God joined my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands ….

As Friar Lawrence enters Act IV, Scene v, of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, hesays the following words:

Come, is the bride ready to go to church?

Why is this line an example of dramatic irony?

• Friar Lawrence does not mean what he says, but the audience thinks he does.

• Friar Lawrence believes Juliet will be going to church, but the audience knows she will not.

• The other characters think Friar Lawrence means what he says, but the audience knows he does not.

• Friar Lawrence believes Juliet is already at the church, but the other characters know she is not.

Read this quotation from Act IV, Scene v, of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.

First Musician. Faith, we may put up our pipes and be gone.

Nurse. Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up! / For well you know this is a pitiful case.

This exchange occurs at the end of Scene v after Juliet’s death has been discovered and the musicians who had gathered to celebrate her wedding are being dismissed. It ends with a pun on the word case: “For well you know this is a pitiful case.” Which statement best explains the pun?

• The ceremony is a case for celebration and the musicians are there in case they are needed.

• The Nurse wants the musicians to leave in case Capulet decides to get on her case for having them.

• The death of Juliet is a sad case, but a case is also a container for holding a musician’s instrument.

• The case for the musicians playing at the ceremony had become a case of law because of the death of Juliet.