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Name: _______________________________________________ Dr. Mink English 1 Period: __________________ Date: ____________________________ Romeo & Juliet Act 1 questions Answer each of the following questions, completely, in the space provided. Use complete sentences where needed. Prologue
1. In what city does this play take place?
2. Why are Romeo and Juliet called “star-cross’d lovers”?
Scene 1
3. Who is fighting at the beginning of the first scene?
4. Who tries to break up the fighting?
5. What threat does the Prince make to Lord Montague and Lord Capulet?
6. Benvolio and Montague describe the way Romeo has been acting. What do they have to say
about him?
7. Why is Romeo so sad? Explain.
8. What is Benvolio’s advice to Romeo?
Scene 2
9. Why does Capulet think it will be easy for Montague and him to keep the peace?
10. What does Paris ask of Capulet?
Name: _______________________________________________ Dr. Mink English 1 Period: __________________ Date: ____________________________ Romeo & Juliet Act 1 questions 11. What is Capulet’s first answer?
12. What is the name of the woman Romeo loves?
13. What do Romeo and Benvolio decide to do? What reasons does each have for this decision?
Scene 3
14. How old is Juliet?
15. When Lady Capulet asks Juliet how she feels about marriage, what is Juliet’s answer? What
does this mean?
16. Following Juliet’s answer, what does Lady Capulet then tell Juliet?
Scene 4
17. According to Mercutio, who or what is Queen Mab, and what does she or it do?
18. What is Romeo’s mood at the end of this scene? Explain.
Scene 5
19. What does Romeo think of Juliet the first time he sees her?
20. How does Tybalt recognize Romeo? What is Capulet’s reaction to Romeo’s being at the
party?
21. How does Romeo find out Juliet’s last name?
22. How does Juliet find out Romeo’s last name?
Name: _______________________________________________ Dr. Mink English 1 Period: __________________ Date: ____________________________ Romeo & Juliet Act 1 questions Identify the speaker and explain the quote (what is being said, the circumstances surrounding the
statement, and what it reveals about the speaker and/or subject).
23.
“Many a morning hath he there been seen,
With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew,
Adding to the clouds more clouds with his deep sighs...
Black and portentous must this humor prove,
Unless good counsel may the cause remove.”
24.
“‘Tis the way
To call hers exquisite, in question more.
These happy masks that kiss fair ladies’ brows,
Being black, puts us in mind they hide the fair.
He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
25.
”What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
Have at thee, coward!”
26.
“At my poor house look to behold this night
Earth treading stars that make dark heaven light.
Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
When well-appareled April on the heel
Of limping winter treads, even such delight
Among fresh fennel buds shall you this night
Inherit at my house.”
27.
“Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you
Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,
Are made already mothers. By my count
I was your mother much upon these years
That you are now a maid. Thus, then, in brief:
The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.”
28.
“True, I talk of dreams;
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy;”
29.
“It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
as a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear.”
30.
“My only love, sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathed enemy.”