| What can you infer about Friar Laurence from the line in bold?JULIETTell me not, friar, that thou hear’st of this,Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,Do thou but call my resolution wise,And with this knife I’ll help it presently.God join’d my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands;And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal’d,Shall be the label to another deed,Or my true heart with treacherous revoltTurn to another, this shall slay them both:Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,Give me some present counsel, or, behold,’Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knifeShall play the umpire, arbitrating thatWhich the commission of thy years and artCould to no issue of true honour bring.Be not so long to speak; I long to die,If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy. | Friar Laurence is an older man. |
| Which of the following questions should you ask to make an informed inference about what will happen next? | What has a foreshadowing suggested for far? |
| Which of the following does foreshadowing not do? | Provide a summary of the story. |
| What does it mean to infer something? | It means to make an educated guess about what has happened or will happen. |
| Which of the following lines by Juliet foreshadows the end of the play?JULIETI have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,That almost freezes up the heat of life:I’ll call them back again to comfort me:Nurse! What should she do here?My dismal scene I needs must act alone.Come, vial.What if this mixture do not work at all?Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.What if it be a poison, which the friarSubtly hath minister’d to have me dead,Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d,Because he married me before to Romeo?I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,For he hath still been tried a holy man.How if, when I am laid into the tomb,I wake before the time that RomeoCome to redeem me? there’s a fearful point!Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?Or, if I live, is it not very like,The horrible conceit of death and night,Together with the terror of the place,—As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,Where, for these many hundred years, the bonesOf all my buried ancestors are packed:Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,At some hours in the night spirits resort;—Alack, alack, is it not like that I,So early waking, what with loathsome smells,And shrieks like mandrakes’ torn out of the earth,That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:—O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,Environed with all these hideous fears?And madly play with my forefather’s joints?And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?And, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone,As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?O, look! methinks I see my cousin’s ghostSeeking out Romeo, that did spit his bodyUpon a rapier’s point: stay, Tybalt, stay!Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee. | And, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone,As with a club, dash out my desperate brains? |
| What can you infer about Friar Laurence from the line in bold?JULIETI have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,That almost freezes up the heat of life:I’ll call them back again to comfort me:Nurse! What should she do here?My dismal scene I needs must act alone.Come, vial.What if this mixture do not work at all?Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.What if it be a poison, which the friarSubtly hath minister’d to have me dead,Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d,Because he married me before to Romeo?I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,For he hath still been tried a holy man.How if, when I am laid into the tomb,I wake before the time that RomeoCome to redeem me? there’s a fearful point!Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?Or, if I live, is it not very like,The horrible conceit of death and night,Together with the terror of the place,—As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,Where, for these many hundred years, the bonesOf all my buried ancestors are packed:Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,At some hours in the night spirits resort;—Alack, alack, is it not like that I,So early waking, what with loathsome smells,And shrieks like mandrakes’ torn out of the earth,That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:—O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,Environed with all these hideous fears?And madly play with my forefather’s joints?And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?And, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone,As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?O, look! methinks I see my cousin’s ghostSeeking out Romeo, that did spit his bodyUpon a rapier’s point: stay, Tybalt, stay!Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee. | Friar Laurence is a trustworthy man. |
| Which of the following lines by Juliet foreshadows the end of the play?JULIETTell me not, friar, that thou hear’st of this,Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,Do thou but call my resolution wise,And with this knife I’ll help it presently.God join’d my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands;And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal’d,Shall be the label to another deed,Or my true heart with treacherous revoltTurn to another, this shall slay them both:Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,Give me some present counsel, or, behold,’Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knifeShall play the umpire, arbitrating thatWhich the commission of thy years and artCould to no issue of true honour bring.Be not so long to speak; I long to die,If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy. | And with this knife I’ll help it presently |
| Which of the following strategies is similar to making inferences? | Using context |
| What does it mean to “read between the lines”? | It means to make an inference about what happened. |
| Who says the following lines?A plague o’ both your houses!They have made worms’ meat of me: I have it,And soundly too: your houses! | Mercutio |
| Why does Romeo drink the poison he’s obtained from the apothecary? | He thinks Juliet is dead. |
| Who says the following lines?Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm. | Mercutio |
| Of the following events, which happens first in Romeo and Juliet? | Mercutio dies |
| What does the following speech mean?Hold, then. Go home, be merry, give consentTo marry Paris. Wednesday is to-morrow. To-morrow night look that thou lie alone; Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou off; When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse Shall keep his native progress, but surcease; No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou liv’st; The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fadeTo paly ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall Like death when he shuts up the day of life; Each part, depriv’d of supple government, Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death; And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk deathThou shalt continue two-and-forty hours, And then awake as from a pleasant sleep. Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou deadThen, as the manner of our country is,In thy best robes uncovered on the bier Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie. In the mean time, against thou shalt awake, Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift; And hither shall he come; and he and I Will watch thy waking, and that very night Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. And this shall free thee from this present shame, If no inconstant toy nor womanish fearAbate thy valour in the acting it. | Friar Laurence is telling Juliet how to take the potion. |
| Which of the following lines foreshadows Romeo and Juliet’s tragic end? | I fear, too early: for my mind misgivesSome consequence yet hanging in the starsShall bitterly begin his fearful dateWith this night’s revels and expire the termOf a despised life closed in my breastBy some vile forfeit of untimely death. |
| Of the following events, which happens last in Romeo and Juliet? | Juliet takes the potion |
| Why did Friar Laurence suggest Juliet should take the potion? | It would allow her to avoid getting married to Paris. |
| Where does Romeo go when he gets banished? | Mantua |
| Why is Romeo exiled? | For killing Tybalt |
| Who performs Romeo and Juliet’s marriage? | Friar Lawrence |
| Who is the fairy that Mercutio says visits Romeo in dreams? | Queen Mab |
| What does the Nurse advise Juliet to do after Romeo is exiled? | Act as if Romeo is dead and marry Paris |
| Where do Romeo and Juliet meet? | At Capulet’s feast |
| Who kills Mercutio? | Tybalt |
| Which character first persuades Romeo to attend the feast? | Benvolio |
| What, at first, does Juliet claim that Romeo hears the morning after their wedding night? | The nightingale |
| To what does Romeo first compare Juliet during the balcony scene? | The morning sun |
| Who discovers Juliet after she takes Friar Lawrence’s potion? | The Nurse |
| Who proposes that a gold statue of Juliet be built in Verona? | Montague |
| To which powerful figure is Paris related? | Prince Escalus |
| How and where does Romeo commit suicide? | With poison in Juliet’s tomb |
| Who is the last person to see Juliet before she stabs herself dead? | Friar Lawrence |
| Why is Friar John unable to deliver Friar Lawrence’s message to Romeo in Mantua? | He is held inside a quarantined house, and is unable to leave. |
| Why does the Apothecary agree to sell Romeo poison? | He is poor, and needs the money. |
| On what day do Romeo and Juliet meet? | Sunday |
| With whom is Romeo madly in love for the first two scenes of the play? | Rosaline |
| In what decade was Romeo and Juliet written? | 1590s |
| Whom does Mercutio curse as he lies dying after a duel? | The Montagues and Capulets |
| In what area is Friar Lawrence an expert? | Plants and herbs |
| What term does the Chorus use to describe the lovers? | star-crossed |
| Why does Tybalt first challenge Romeo to a duel? | He is offended that Romeo shows up at the Capulet ball. |
| In what year did Shakespeare die? | 1616 |
Romeo and Juliet: English 1
August 8, 2019