Act II, scenes 4-6

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Scene 4
  1. What do Benvolio and Mercutio think Romeo has been doing?

  2. What is the letter that Tybalt sent to Romeo's father?
  1. How does Benvolio mean that Romeo will answer the letter?
     
  2. What does Mercutio mean when he says, "Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead!"
     
  3. List the traits which Mercutio attributes to Tybalt in his description to Benvolio.
     
  4. According to Romeo, what sort of youth is Mercutio? Quote the lines which support your answer. 
  1. Who is rude to the Nurse, and why? 
  1. Explain:  "...to lead into a fool's paradise."
     
  2. Which message does Romeo give the nurse in the following lines:
"Bid her devise
Some means to come to shrift this afternoon,
And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell
Be shrived and married."   (Lines 183-186)
Scene 5
  1. What time of day is it?
     
  2. How long has the Nurse been gone on her errand to Romeo?
  1. Why is the Nurse so slow in delivering Romeo’s message to Juliet?  What do we learn here of Juliet’s feeling for the Nurse?
     
  2. Quote the lines which show Juliet's impatience.
Scene 6
  1. What does Friar Laurence mean,
"So smile the heavens upon this holy act
That after-hours with sorrow chide us not!"   (Lines 1-2)  
  1. Is Romeo fearful of the future? Explain the following lines:
"Then love-devouring death do what he dare
It is enough I may but call her mine."   (Lines 7-8)
  1. What is the Friar's warning in the lines:
"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume."   (Lines 9-11) 
  1. What is the Friar's advice to Romeo in the following lines?
"Therefore love moderately: long love doth so:
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."   (Lines 14-15) 
  1. What is the Friar's meaning in lines 35-37?
"Come, come with me and we will make short work;
For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
Till Holy Church incorporate two in one."


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