Why does Mercutio decide to fight with Tybalt? | because Romeo is now related by marriage to Tybalt and is trying to keep the peace and won’t fight |
Why does Romeo finally kill Tybalt? | because Tybalt kills Mercutio |
What penalty does Prince Escalus decree for Romeo after Tybalt’s death? | he is banished |
Who tells Juliet of Tybalt’s death? | Nurse |
Where does Romeo go to hide after he kills Tybalt? | Friar Laurence’s cell |
What sensible advice does Friar Laurence give when Romeo threatens to kill himself? | Be patient and be thankful for what he has |
What do Friar Laurence and Nurse help Romeo do before he goes to Mantua? | To meet and spend the night with his bride |
What does Capulet say he will do if Juliet does not marry Paris? | he will disown her |
What does Nurse advise Juliet to do? What reasons does she give? | Nurse tells Juliet to marry Paris because Romeo is not coming back |
To whom does Juliet decide to go for help? | Friar Laurence |
What day(s) of the week is (are) covered in Act 3? | Monday afternoon to early Tuesday morning |
“Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee/Doth muchexcuse the appertaining rage/To such a greeting.” | Romeo-he doesn’t want to fight/kill Tybalt because they are now family |
“A plague o’ both your houses!/They have made worms’ meat of me . . .” | Mercutio — Tybalt just killed Mercutio and he is telling Romeo this because it is the fighting between the families that has now caused his death |
“Let Romeo hence in haste,/Else, when he’s found, that hour is his last.” | Prince Escalus-Tell Romeo to leave the city immediately, or else, if he is found, he will be killed. |
“O, I have bought the mansion of a love,/But not possessed it; and though I am sold,/Not yet enjoyed.” | Juliet-she and Romeo are married but haven’t shown their love yet |
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!/Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?” | Juliet — she’s cursing Tybalt because he’s the one who caused all of this |
“Affliction is enamored of thy parts,/And thou art wedded to calamity.” | Friar Lawrence — despite these steps, trouble will still find Romeo |
“In what vile part of this anatomy/Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack/The hateful mansion.” | Romeo — he says this because he thinks Juliet hates part of him and he’s willing to cut the part out of him that Juliet hates |
“O god! I have an ill-divining soul:/Methinks I seethee, now thou art so low,/As one dead in the bottom of a tomb . . .” | Juliet — she dreams that he is at the bottom of a tomb, foreshadowing what’s to come |
“And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend;/Andyou be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets . . .” | Capulet — he’s lashing out at Juliet because she doesn’t want to marry Paris |
consort | to keep company or associate with |
garish | glaring, gaudy, vivid colors |
tedious | tiresome because of length of dullness; boring |
beguiled | cheated, tricked |
validity | value, legitimacy |
abhors | to loathe (hate), to detest (dislike) strongly |
Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Test Review
July 20, 2019