Act 4 Test Prep

Question 0

A fault state

Answer 0

Slander

Question 1

Not moderate; not a good amount; not extreme or excessive

Answer 1

Immoderate

Question 2

Prolong postpone

Answer 2

Prorogue

Question 3

A burial vault

Answer 3

Charnel house

Question 4

A garment wrapped around a dead body

Answer 4

Shroud

Question 5

To discontinue or end

Answer 5

Surcease

Question 6

Family

Answer 6

Kindred

Question 7

To lessen

Answer 7

Abate

Question 8

To order to command

Answer 8

Behest

Question 9

To face down

Answer 9

Prostrate

Question 10

A prayer

Answer 10

Orisons

Question 11

To receive, get, or pick out

Answer 11

Cull

Question 12

An herb whose narcotic and its roots resemble a human

Answer 12

Mandrake

Question 13

Comfort during distress

Answer 13

Solace

Question 14

Someone who is killed for their beliefs or sacrificed to inflict pain on

Answer 14

Martyr

Question 15

An herb which was used to mask the scent of death.

Answer 15

Rosemary

Question 16

To order someone

Answer 16

Ordain

Question 17

Sad, gloomy, or mournful

Answer 17

Sullen

Question 18

A mournful funeral song

Answer 18

Dirge

Question 19

Sullen, upset, a sad time

Answer 19

Lour

Question 20

If Friar cannot help Juliet, what will she do?

Answer 20

She will kill herself

Question 21

To show that she is desperate and fearless, what things does Juliet claim she will endure to remain Romeo’s pure wife?

Answer 21

Jump off of the battlements of the tower, walk in thievish ways, live where the serpents are, chained with roaring bears, be shut in a nightly charnel house, covered in a dead mans bones with yellow chapless skulls, go in a new made grave or hide with a dead man in his shroud.

Question 22

Briefly describe Friar’s plan.

Answer 22

He tells Juliet to drink the vial and to tell her nurse that she will sleep by herself so when she drinks the vial she will appear dead.

Question 23

Why do you think that Friar is willing to help Juliet?

Answer 23

He knows that she truly loves Romeo and that she is already married. He also feels a sense of guilt

Question 24

What causes Capulet to say “My heart is wondrous light”?

Answer 24

When Juliet agrees to marry Paris.

Question 25

Quote a line from Juliet’s soliloquy that foreshadows her death.

Answer 25

“Faint cold fear thrills through my veins that freezes the heat of life”

Question 26

List some of Juliet’s fears as she considers taking the potion.

Answer 26

She may suffocate in the tomb, Friar could of poisoned her, she might wake up too early, she won’t be awake when Romeo comes to rescue her.

Question 27

How do her fears contrast with her previous attitude?

Answer 27

Before she was fearless and now she is nervous.

Question 28

Describe the mood in the Capulet house.

Answer 28

The mood is happy at first because of the marriage and now everyone is sad and depressed because of Juliet’s death.

Question 29

List a quote that tells that Friar’s plan is working.

Answer 29

“Ready to go but not to return”