| What drastic action is Juliet willing to take to avoid marrying Paris? | suicide |
| What is Friar Lawrence’s plan? | she will drink a potion which will make her appear dead; Romeo will meet her in the burial tomb as she wakes up and take her to live with him in Mantua |
| What is “the knot” that Capulet says he will have “knit up tomorrow”? | Juliet’s marriage to Paris |
| Why is Capulet suddenly joyful, and says that his “heart is wondrous light”? | he is happy that Juliet has agreed to marry Paris |
| For which reasons does Juliet question Friar Lawrence’s motives? | perhaps he is afraid of being punished for secretly marrying Romeo and Juliet and is planning to give her real poison to kill her |
| What does Juliet fear? | that she will not wake upthat she will wake up and go mad in the tomb and bash in her brains with a bone of her ancestorthat she will suffocate in the tombthat she will wake up before Romeo arrives |
| How does the Nurse tease Capulet in scene 4? | She says he is a “cot-quean,” meaning that he is acting like a woman, being so concerned with the preparations for the wedding feast |
| Which is the first character to find Juliet “dead”? | the Nurse |
| Whom has been married to Juliet rather than Paris, according to Capulet? | Death |
| Where is Romeo during the entirety of Act IV? | Mantua |
Romeo and Juliet: Act IV
July 21, 2019