My Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Act I

What problem, according to the lines below is Romeo dealing with?

Benvolio (B): It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?

Romeo (R): Not having that, which having, makes them short.

B: In love?

R: Out.

B: Of love?

R: Out of her favor where I am in love.

• He is in love with someone he is supposed to hate?

• He has fallen out of love.

• He is in love with someone who does not love him back.

• He does not actually like the person with whom he is in love.

What is Romeo's tone in the following passage?

'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs,

Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes

Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.

What is it else? A madness most discreet,

A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

• Sad and contemplative

• Angry and irrational

• Patient and hopeful

In the following lines, what information does Romeo reveal about the woman he loves?

Benvolio: Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?

Romeo: She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,

For beauty starved with her severity

Cuts beauty off from all posterity.

She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair.

To merit bliss by making me despair.

She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow

Do I live dead that live to tell it now

• Her name is Diana

• She intends to remain a virgin

• She will only love him back if Romeo is rich.

• She is in love with someone else.

What advice about getting over unrequited love does Benvolio give Romeo in lines 220-228?

Benvolio (B): Be ruled by me; forget to think of her

Romeo (R):

O, teach me how I should forget to think

B: By giving liberty unto thine eyes,

Examine other beauties

• Romeo should give into his feelings and profess his love.

• Romeo should take a closer look at the woman he loves, because then he will realize she's not all that.

• Romeo should look at other beautiful women

• Romeo should stop thinking about the woman he loves

What is Paris' "suit," referred to in the lines below:

Paris: Of honorable reckoning are you both,

And pity' tis you lived at odds so long.

But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?

Lord Capulet: But saying o'er what I have said before:

My child is yet a stranger in the world;

She hath not seen the change of fourteen years

Let two more summers wither in their pride

Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride

• Paris wants to ask the prince to pardon the Montagues and Capulets for street fighting.

• Paris wants Capulet's permission to speak to Montague on his behalf

• Paris wants Capulet to make peace with Montague

• Paris wants to marry Juliet

What is Lady Capulet telling Juliet to do in the lines below?

Lady Capulet: Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,

And find delight writ there with beauty's pen

Examine every married lineament

And see how one another lends content

And, what obscured in this fair volume lies,

Find written in the margent of his eyes.

This precious book of love, this unbound lover,

To beautify him, only lacks a cover

• Juliet should take a closer look at Paris, if she does, she'll find him appealing and agree to marry him.

• Juliet should write about her feelings to figure out if she wants to marry Paris.

• Juliet should compare Paris to other men at the feast, and she'll see that he's the most handsome and agree to marry him.

• Juliet should use the feast as a chance to imagine what being married to Paris is like; if she enjoys the experience, she can agree to marry him.