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Choose one question from each Act of Romeo and Juliet and answer in a complete paragraph. Use textual evidence to support your answer as needed. Act I: 1.) Why do you think Shakespeare includes the scene where we find out that Romeo is in love with Rosaline? How is Romeo’s infatuation with Rosaline compared to his love for Juliet? 2.) Evaluate the final scene of Act I, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love. Is there sudden love realistic or does it happen too quickly? What images show the seriousness of their feelings? 3.) If you were Romeo and Juliet’s parents and you found out that they were in love, what would you do? Do Romeo and Juliet have a good reason to be upset? Act II: 1.) What does Friar Laurence mean when he says to Romeo of Rosaline, “O, she knew well/ Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell.” 2.) Why are Romeo and Juliet in such a hurry to marry? Is this speed justified, or is it just unwise? What do you think they should have done in this situation? 3.) What is the Nurse’s attitude when Juliet first speaks to her about Romeo? Why does she go along with Juliet’s plan to marry Romeo? 4.) What does Friar Laurence hope will happen when he marries Romeo and Juliet? Do you think he is right to marry them without consulting their parents? 5.) Friar Laurence says that loving moderately and slowly is better than loving quickly and too much at once. Do you agree or disagree with him? Why? Act III: 1.) What two major complications occur for Romeo and Juliet in this act? What are the problems that these complications create? (for them individually, as a couple and for their families? 2.) What do you think the plan for Romeo and Juliet would have been if the complications had not occurred? When would they have told their families? How would they have told them? 3.) Do you think that Romeo was justified in killing Tybalt? Why or why not? 4.) Evaluate Capulet’s change in attitude in this act. What was his attitude towards Juliet and marriage in previous acts? What is his attitude in this act? Why do you think he changes? Is this sort of change typical for a parent or adult? 5.) Imagine that Juliet was NOT in love with Romeo. Do you think that a marriage to Paris would cheer her up after the death of Tybalt? Do you think that she would have gone through with it? Act IV: 1.) Why might Shakespeare have included scene 4? What does this scene add to the play? 2.) Do you think that Friar Lawrence’s plan was a good one? Why or why not? What might be some alternatives? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this plan? 3.) Choose two characters who you think have changed the most over the course of the play. How have they changed?