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ROMEO & JULIET Questions. Please check my answers. Will MEDAL

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6. Read Capulet’s speech from Act IV, Scene 2, as he plans for the wedding:
Tush, I will stir about,
And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:
Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her;
I’ll not to bed to-night; --let me alone;
I’ll play the housewife for this once. --What, Ho!
-- They are all forth: well, I will walk myself
To County Paris, to prepare him up
Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim’d.
How does this example of dramatic irony create tension?
Readers know that Juliet will obey her father's wishes.
Readers know that Juliet has no plans to marry Paris.
Readers know that Capulet looks forward to his daughter’s marriage to Paris.******
Readers know that Capulet plans to continue the Capulet-Montague feud.


7. After he is wounded in Act III, Scene 1, Mercutio says to Romeo, "Why the devil came you between us? I / was hurt under your arm." Which of the following is the best paraphrase of Mercutio's words?
I am so badly wounded that I feel I will die.
Why did you interfere? Your arm allowed him to stab me.
Why has the devil caused me bad fortune?
Your arm could not save me, Romeo.****


8. What can readers infer from the following quote from Act V, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?
Prince: A gloomy peace this morning with it brings;
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished;
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

All will be forgiven.
Some characters may be banished from Verona.
The Capulet-Montague feud will never be resolved.****
The Capulets and Montagues will experience peace for a period of time.