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Romeo and Juliet Act 5 guide

1. Who is Balthasar?

2. What news does Romeo expect from Balthasar?

3. What news does Balthasar bring?

4. Balthasar brought Romeo

A. Friar Lawrence's letter

B. Incomplete or inaccurate news about Juliet

C. A method of suicide

D. Ways to act hastily

5. Explain the term apothecary.

6. Why was the apothecary reluctant to give Romeo poison?

7. What does Romeo mean in lines 80-81?

"There is thy gold, worse poison to mean's souls,

Doing more murder in this loathsome world,

Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."

8. Why was Friar John detained?

9. Did Friar John deliver the letter to Romeo?

10. Which two things will Friar Lawrence do?

11. Who interrupted Paris's ritual for his "true" love?

12. T/F Balthasar's suspicion kept him from complying wholeheartedly with Romeo's orders.

13. T/F Paris died knowing the truth about Juliet's distilled liquor and her secret marriage with Romeo.

14. In Romeo's final soliloquy, the reader sees that he

A. Personifies death

B. Noted Juliet's unblemished beauty

C. Realized whom he had just killed

D. Kissed Juliet

E. All of the above

15. T/F The distilled liquor made Juliet forget where she was to awaken and who was supposed to have been there.

16. Where did Friar Lawrence want to hide Juliet?

17. Why did Juliet kiss Romeo?

18. How did Juliet die?

19. T/F Friar Lawrence escaped from the guards.

20. Who died fretting over Romeo's banishment?

21. What is going to be made to honor Romeo and Juliet?

22. What does the Prince mean in lines 291-293?

"…Capulet, Montague,

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love."

23. T/F Prince Escalus turned a blind eye towards the homicides and suicides surrounding Romeo and Juliet, and he pardoned everyone