Romeo and Juliet, Act IV

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.

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

Who will be waiting in the tomb when Juliet awakens from the sleeping potion?

• Lady Capulet

• The Nurse

• Capulet

• Romeo

Where will Juliet be put after her family believes she is dead?

• A casket

• Her bed in her bedroom

• The Capulets tomb

What does the Nurse find?

• a sleeping Juliet

• Juliet with a blade in her stomach

• a seemingly dead Juliet

When Juliet awakens, what will the two lovers do?

• hide in the Friar's cell

• tell their parents what happened

• run away to Mantua

• visit friends

Juliet takes the potion

• 24 hours earlier than she is supposed to 

• 24 hours later 

• when the Friar says to

• on the day that Romeo was supposed to save her

Who first finds Juliet after she has taken the potion

• Lady Capulet

• Lord Capulet

• The Nurse

• Romeo

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 ….