Study guide answers

1. ROMEO & JULIET
ACT 4, SCENE 1
STUDY GUIDE ANSWERS

2. 1. JULIET TELLS THE FRIAR THAT SHE WOULD DO
ANYTHING RATHER THAN MARRY PARIS, INCLUDING
KILLING HERSELF BEFORE BEING DISLOYAL TO ROMEO.

3. 2. Juliet would rather:
• O’ bid me leap …From off the battlements of any tower - lines 78-79
• Or walk in thievish ways - line 80
• Or bid me lurk where serpents are – lines 80-81
• Chain me with roaring bears, - line 81
• Or hide me nightly in a charnel house – line 82 (bone house)
• Or bid me go in a new-made grave
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud – lines 85-68

4. 3. The Friar’s new plan is:
a) Juliet will pretend to marry Paris
b) On Wednesday night she will sleep alone and
take a potion he is giving her
c) The potion will make her appear dead
A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse – line 97
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest – line 99
d) She’ll be put in the burial crypt
e) Romeo & the Friar will wait there for her to
awaken
f) Romeo & Juliet will go to Mantua and be

5. CREATED BY M. RIDDELL APRIL 2017