Back in Verona, Friar John tells Friar Lawrence he was shut up in a plague house: "Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, / So fearful were they of infection." What follows from this in Act 5?

Which of these actually reaches Romeo in Mantua in Act 5 Scene 1?

Balthasar begs, "I do beseech you sir, have patience. / Your looks are pale and wild," and Romeo answers by sending him for ink, paper and post-horses. What does Romeo's speed cost him?

Which of these happens FIRST in Act 5?

Paris's page whistles a warning, then cries "O lord, they fight! I will go call the watch" and runs. What does the page's flight set in motion?

In the vault Friar Lawrence urges Juliet, "Stay not to question, for the watch is coming," then leaves alone when she refuses. What follows from her staying?

In what order do the three deaths at the Capulet tomb happen in Act 5 Scene 3?

Romeo has just said "nothing can be ill if she be well." Balthasar answers, "Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. / Her body sleeps in Capel's monument..." What is he telling Romeo?

Standing over Juliet, Romeo says, "O, here / Will I set up my everlasting rest; / And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars / From this world-wearied flesh." What is he announcing?

Having warned that selling poison is death by Mantua's law, the apothecary takes Romeo's forty ducats and says, "My poverty, but not my will consents." What does the line mean?

Waking beside Romeo, Juliet finds the cup in his hand and says, "O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop / To help me after?" What has she just discovered?

Seeing his daughter's body, Capulet says, "This dagger hath mista'en, for lo, his house / Is empty on the back of Montague, / And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom." What has he worked out?

Arriving at the tomb, Montague tells the Prince, "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight. / Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath." What does this report?

At the monument Romeo hands Balthasar a letter for his father, says he descends to take a ring from Juliet's dead finger, and threatens to tear him joint by joint if he returns to pry. Why the threat?

Paris says, "This is that banish'd haughty Montague / That murder'd my love's cousin," and draws on Romeo. Why does he attack?

Why does Friar Lawrence leave the vault without Juliet in Act 5 Scene 3?

Sent away by Romeo, Balthasar says, "For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout. / His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt." Why does he stay in the churchyard?

Brought before the Prince, Friar Lawrence begins, "I am the greatest, able to do least, / Yet most suspected," and then tells the whole story. Why does he give the full account?

Who says, "O happy dagger. / This is thy sheath"?

Who tells Romeo, "Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law / Is death to any he that utters them"?

Who fetches the watch to the Capulet tomb in Act 5 Scene 3?

Who comes to the churchyard with flowers and a torch, saying, "Give me thy torch, boy. Hence and stand aloof"?

Prince Escalus tells the two fathers, "And I, for winking at your discords too, / Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punish'd." What is he admitting?

Capulet says, "O brother Montague, give me thy hand," and Montague promises a statue of Juliet in pure gold. What does the ending settle, and at what price?

Which statement about the last scene of Romeo and Juliet is NOT true?