Act 5 Test Prep Flashcards
A mishap or something gone wrong
Misadventure
Foretell or predict
Presage
Directly or without delay
Straight
Poverty
Penury
To spread out widely
Disperse
A pharmacist or someone who distributes medications
Apothecary
Gold coin
Ducat
Extreme hunger or starvation
Famine
Disease
Pestilence
To curse or be angry
Beshrew
At a distance
Aloof
Funeral rites
Obsequies
To spread about or scatter here and there
Strew
Unalterable
Inexorable
Examine in detail
Peruse
To place in a tomb
Inter
Unlucky
inauspicious
A tomb
Sepulcher
To accuse
Impeach
What is the setting for this scene?
Mantua is the setting
Give Romeo’s reason for going to the apothecary and tell what he buys.
His reason was because he wanted to die because of Juliet’s supposed death. He wants a poison that will even take down the strongest man, and it will be as fast as a musket and will take her breath away.
Describe the two incidents that lead to Romeo not hearing the truth about Juliet.
1) Friar John asks someone to go with him to Mantua.
2) Friar had been visiting a sick person and Friar John and the other Friar had been quarantined.
Who is hiding in the graveyard when Romeo arrives?
Paris and his servant are hiding in the graveyard
Why does Romeo kill Paris?
Romeo is trying to protect himself while Paris tries to capture him.
After Juliet awakens and discovers Romeo, she refuses the Friar’s new plan. What is the plan and what does she do instead?
The plan is to live with nuns in a nunnery. Instead the stabs herself.
Quote two statements that tell the feud is over.
Lord Montague: I will raise her statue in pure gold.
Lord Capulet: O brother Montague give me thine hand.
