Question

Close Read: Analyze the Text
Identify the choice that best answers the question.

The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.

Part A
How does Juliet act when she returns home from her visit to Friar Lawrence in Act IV, Scene ii, of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?
A. She acts angry.
B. She acts fearful.
C. She acts confused.
D. She acts apologetic.
Part B
Which lines from Act IV best support the answer to Part A?
A. Capulet. Well, he may chance to do some good on her. / A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.
B. Juliet. Where I have learnt me to repent the sin / Of disobedient opposition / To you and your behests, and am enjoined / By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here / To beg your pardon....
C. Capulet. I’ll not to bed tonight; 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 up him / Against tomorrow....
D. Juliet. Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse, / I pray thee, leave me to my self tonight; / For I have need of many orisons / To move the heavens to smile upon my state.

Answer 1

Part A: D. She acts apologetic.

Part B: B. Juliet. "Where I have learnt me to repent the sin / Of disobedient opposition / To you and your behests, and am enjoined / By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here / To beg your pardon...." — these lines explicitly show her repentant, apologetic behavior.