Romeo and Juliet - Questions 1. What are the names of the two feuding families?
2. Where is the play set?
3. Why is Romeo sad in the beginning of the play?
4. Where/How do Romeo and Juliet first meet?
5. What two people help Romeo and Juliet get married?
6. What happens to Mercutio?
7. What happens to Tybalt?
8. Why is Romeo forced to leave the city?
9. Who does Juliet’s father say she must marry?
10. How does Juliet fake her death?
12.How does Romeo die?
13. How does Juliet die?
14. What do Montague and Capulet agree to do at the very end?

1) the Montagues and the Capulets.

2) Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona and Mantua, Italy, during the period of the Italian Renaissance.

3) because his love, Rosaline, doesn't love him back.

4) Romeo and Juliet meet at the ball held by Lord Capulet at his home.

5) Romeo and Juliet get married in secret with the help of Juliet's nurse and Friar Laurence.

6)  Mercutio's wound is fatal and he dies crying "A plague o' both your houses!" Blinded by rage over Mercutio's death.

7) Tybalt died in the streets of Verona after a fight with Romeo.

8) Romeo has killed in revenge he will be banished from the city of Verona rather than sentenced to death.

9) She has to marry Paris

10) Juliet drinks a sleeping potion the night before her marriage to Paris. In the morning, she does not wake and she is pronounced dead. They take her to the Capulet tomb where she will wait for Romeo.

12) Romeo buys poison from an Apothecary in Mantua. He returns to Verona and goes to the tomb where he surprises and kills the mourning Paris. Romeo takes his poison and dies.

13) Juliet sees Romeo dead beside her, and surmises from the empty vial that he has drunk poison. Hearing the approaching watch, Juliet unsheathes Romeo's dagger and, saying, “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath,” stabs herself (5.3. 171). She dies upon Romeo's body.

14) Lord Montague and Lord Capulet, in agreeing to end their feud, pledge to have constructed golden statues of the other's dead child. Lord Montague promises to have a statue of Juliet built in pure gold; similarly, Lord Capulet vows to have one fashioned like Romeo.

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