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Friar Laurence: Too familiar

Is my dear son with such sour company:

I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.

Romeo: What less than doomsday is the prince's doom?

Friar Laurence: A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,

Not body's death, but body's banishment.

—Romeo and Juliet,
William Shakespeare

Read the passage, and then use the drop-down menus to answer the questions.

What new complication is introduced here?
Romeo is sent to prison.
The prince refuses to punish Romeo.
Romeo is banished from Verona.

How will this complication affect the central conflict?
Juliet will be banished, too.
Peace through marriage now seems unlikely.
Friar Laurence will go with Romeo.