Romeo and Juliet Act 4 Quiz (Act IV)

Romeo and Juliet Act 4 questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. What does Friar Laurence give Juliet at his cell to save her from the second marriage?
   A letter to be carried secretly to Mantua · A draught to calm her before the wedding · A poison to use if the plan should fail · A liquor that will make her seem dead
2. Juliet returns home and kneels in apparent obedience. What does Capulet then change?
   He brings the wedding forward a day · He asks the Prince to give her away · He puts the wedding back to Monday · He moves it from church to his hall
3. Alone with the vial in her hand, what does Juliet picture most vividly as she hesitates?
   The Nurse telling her mother everything · Waking in the vault among dead men's bones · Paris finding out what the Friar has done · Her father searching the chamber at dawn
4. How does Juliet handle Paris when he meets her at Friar Laurence's cell?
   By telling him plainly she is married · By weeping and asking for more time · With answers that can be read two ways · By refusing to speak a word to him
5. How does Capulet describe his daughter when the household finds her seemingly dead?
   As a star gone out of the heavens · As a candle blown out before dawn · As a bird fallen out of the nest · As a flower killed by untimely frost

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