Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Review

Who is supposed to deliver the letter to Romeo?

• Friar John

• Friar Sanders

• Friar Laurence

• Friar Tuck

Why doesn't Romeo know that Juliet is not truly dead?

• The message was never delivered to him.

• He was in another town.

• Friar John didn't want to deliver the news to Romeo.

• Romeo had a heart attack.

What prevents Friar John from delivering his message to Romeo?

• He is jumped by a group of Capulets during his trip to Mantua.

• He is quarantined in a house believed to be infected with the plague.

• He isn't prevented from delivering his message to Romeo.

• He falls off his horse while on his way to Mantua.

What action does Balthasar's news prompt Romeo to do?

• Balthasar's news forces Romeo to stay in Mantua.

• Balthasar's news forces Romeo to have a duel with Lord Capulet.

• Balthasar's news prompts Romeo to return to Verona to die next to Juliet.

• Balthasar doesn't deliver any news to Romeo.

Where does Romeo get the poison?

• He buys the poison from an apothecary in Mantua.

• He buys the poison from an apothecary in Verona.

• He makes the poison himself.

• He buys the poison from Balthasar.

"Money is a worse poison to men's souls than these poor poisons that you're not allowed to sell."

The underlined words from the apothecary's quote above is are an example of .................?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• soliloquy

In Act 5, ___________________ irony is used when Romeo and the Capulet family believe that Juliet is dead. This is because the audience knows that she still alive.

• situational

• verbal

• dramatic

When Juliet awakens to find Romeo and Paris dead, how does she decide to take her own life?

• She drinks the remaining poison next to Romeo's body.

• She slides the lid of her tomb back on to trap herself inside.

• Juliet doesn't die.

• She stabs herself with a dagger.

Who else do we learn has died (offstage) from sadness during the final scene?

• Lady Capulet

• Benvolio

• The Nurse

• Lady Montague

At the end of the play Friar Lawrence admits his role in this tragedy. What piece of evidence is provided to Prince Escalus that supports Friar Lawrence's story?

• The Nurse steps forward as a witness.

• Juliet confesses everything to the prince and two families.

• Balthasar provides a letter that Romeo has written.

• Friar Lawrence has nothing to support his side of the story.