"Quiz Time, Act I" - Question Answers:
__1.__Three important events that took place in Act 1 are:
_______- The brawl at the start, which demonstrates the tension between the Capulets and the Montagues, and the fact that the prince is clearly badass.
_______- Juliet is told that she will be married to Paris, and she seems happy about it
_______- Romeo goes to the Capulets’ ball, and meets Juliet, and falls in love for some reason; shortly afterwards they find out that they are enemies.
__2.__The Narrator describes the setting of Romeo and Juliet to the audience. obviously
__3.__Romeo and Juliet takes place in the city of Verona.
__4.__The two families who maintain a blood feud against each other are the Capulets and the Montagues.
__5.__Capulet tells Paris to either wait until Juliet is fourteen before marrying her, or to get Juliet to fall in love with him before then to accelerate the process. Paris tries to make Juliet fall in love with him at the ball, because he’s a paedophile.
__6.__Mercutio and Juliet’s nurse are alike in that they are both very loud and outspoken, and have little care for rules.
__7.__The first meeting of Romeo and Juliet happened when Romeo stealthily infiltrates the Capulets’ ball with some friends (of course nobody asked them who they were). Romeo meets Juliet while raving on the dance floor in a cliché love-at-first-sight moment, based entirely on appearance with no basis whatsoever on what they might actually be like to each other. HURRRRR
__8.__Romeo becomes a lot more driven to achieve something after he falls in love with Juliet, and becomes a lot more lively and happy. He also starts speaking in poetry. Which is extremely irritating.
__9.__When Tybalt sees Romeo at the ball his immediate reaction is to call his muzza cousin and get him to stab Romeo, but he is stopped by Capulet, who calls him a ‘saucy boy’. wat
__10.__The parents of Romeo and Juliet would probably react badly if they found out that the two had fallen in love; Romeo is of the Montagues, and Juliet is of the Capulets, so their parents are mortal enemies. It is very unlikely that either family would be willing to give up an age-old war just because their children said so, and any attempts at resolving the problem peacefully would probably end in mortal kombat
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