Romeo & Juliet Act 2

Question 0

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
~JULIET

Answer 0

Why are you Romeo? Deny your father and give up your name. Or, it you will not, but speak your love for me, I’ll leave the Capulet family.

Question 1

What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
~ROMEO

Answer 1

What light comes through my window? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!

Question 2

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would meal as sweet.
~JULIET

Answer 2

What’s in a name? We will call your name a rose. We could call you any other name but you would still smell as sweet.

Question 3

With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls.
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
~ROMEO

Answer 3

With love’s wings I fly over these walls, for stony walls cannot stop my love.

Question 4

My life were better ended by their hate
Than death proroguèd, wanting of thy love.
~ROMEO

Answer 4

My life would be better ended by their hate than death postponed if I am deprived of your love.

Question 5

I have no joy of this contract tonight.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
~JULIET

Answer 5

I have no joy in this exchange of lovers’ vows tonight.

It is too hasty, too unadvised, too sudden;

Question 6

Parting is such a sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
~JULIET

Answer 6

I hate to have to part that I shall say good night and let that be enough.

Question 7

For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.
~FRIAR

Answer 7

Your marriage to Juliet may unite Capulets and Montagues in love rather than in bitterness

Question 8

Wise and slow. They stumble that run fast.

~FRIAR

Answer 8

Slow down, take your time. Those up who rush get hurt

Question 9

Prince of Cats

~MERCUITIO

Answer 9

A survivor (since some believe that cats have nine lives)

Question 10

Now art thou sociable. Now art thou Romeo.

~MERCUITIO

Answer 10

Now are you a person who enjoys the company of others (instead of wanting to be alone and pine over Rosaline). Now are you Romeo.

Question 11

If ye should lead her in a fool’s paradise, as
They say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour,
~NURSE

Answer 11

If ye were to seduce her, it would be wicked

Question 12

Then hie you hence to Friar Laurance’ cell.
There stays a husband to make you a wife.
~NURSE

Answer 12

Then if you go quickly from here to Friar Laurance’ cell, there is Romeo to make you his wife

Question 13

These violent delights have violent ends.

~FRIAR

Answer 13

These intense delights have extreme ends