Act 5 Test Prep

Question 0

A mishap or something gone wrong

Answer 0

Misadventure

Question 1

Foretell or predict

Answer 1

Presage

Question 2

Directly or without delay

Answer 2

Straight

Question 3

Poverty

Answer 3

Penury

Question 4

To spread out widely

Answer 4

Disperse

Question 5

A pharmacist or someone who distributes medications

Answer 5

Apothecary

Question 6

Gold coin

Answer 6

Ducat

Question 7

Extreme hunger or starvation

Answer 7

Famine

Question 8

Disease

Answer 8

Pestilence

Question 9

To curse or be angry

Answer 9

Beshrew

Question 10

At a distance

Answer 10

Aloof

Question 11

Funeral rites

Answer 11

Obsequies

Question 12

To spread about or scatter here and there

Answer 12

Strew

Question 13

Unalterable

Answer 13

Inexorable

Question 14

Examine in detail

Answer 14

Peruse

Question 15

To place in a tomb

Answer 15

Inter

Question 16

Unlucky

Answer 16

inauspicious

Question 17

A tomb

Answer 17

Sepulcher

Question 18

To accuse

Answer 18

Impeach

Question 19

What is the setting for this scene?

Answer 19

Mantua is the setting

Question 20

Give Romeo’s reason for going to the apothecary and tell what he buys.

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Describe the two incidents that lead to Romeo not hearing the truth about Juliet.

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

Who is hiding in the graveyard when Romeo arrives?

Answer 22

Paris and his servant are hiding in the graveyard

Question 23

Why does Romeo kill Paris?

Answer 23

Romeo is trying to protect himself while Paris tries to capture him.

Question 24

After Juliet awakens and discovers Romeo, she refuses the Friar’s new plan. What is the plan and what does she do instead?

Answer 24

The plan is to live with nuns in a nunnery. Instead the stabs herself.

Question 25

Quote two statements that tell the feud is over.

Answer 25

Lord Montague: I will raise her statue in pure gold.

Lord Capulet: O brother Montague give me thine hand.