Question: Why has Tybalt come looking for Romeo?

Answer: He wants to challenge Romeo to a duel.

Question: What does Mercutio do?

Answer: He fights Tybalt instead of Romeo fighting Tybalt.

Question: How does Romeo contribute to Mercutio’s death?

Answer: Romeo interferes with the fight and Tybalt reaches around Romeo and stabs Mercutio because Mercutio couldn’t see Tybalt.

Question: What is the outcome of the fight between Romeo and Tybalt?

Answer: Tybalt dies.

Question: What punishment does Escalus give Romeo?

Answer: Romeo is banished.

Question: Why does Juliet defend Romeo’s actions?

Answer: He is her husband.

Question: At the end of scene 2, what does Juliet ask the nurse to do?

Answer: Find out where Romeo is.

Question: What is Romeo’s reaction when Friar Laurence tells him Escalus has banished him?

Answer: He’d be better off dead.

Question: What is Friar Laurence’s plan for Romeo?

Answer: Romeo is to go to Mantua.

Question: In scene 4, what does Capulet tell Paris?

Answer: Paris and Juliet will be married on Thursday.