This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is evicted to__________because he__________

Step 1: Analyze the question The question asks where Romeo is banished to (the word "evicted" is used loosely for "banished") and the reason for it.

Step 2: Recall the plot (Act 3, Scene 1)

• Mercutio, Romeo's friend, is killed by Tybalt, a Capulet, in a street fight.
• Romeo, enraged, fights Tybalt and kills him.
• Prince Escalus had warned that further street brawls would be punished by death. Because Romeo killed Tybalt (and Tybalt had killed Mercutio), the Prince reduces Romeo's penalty to banishment from Verona.
• Romeo goes to Mantua.

Step 3: Check the options

• A. Mantua is correct, but "fights Tybalt" is incomplete. Banishment came because he killed Tybalt, not merely because he fought him.
• B. Capulet's party is wrong. Romeo attended the party earlier, and it was not a place of exile.
• C. Mantua, because he fought and killed Tybalt in a street duel. This is correct.
• D. Romeo killed Paris later, at the Capulet tomb, and that was after his banishment. It was not the reason for it.

Step 4: Answer Romeo is banished to Mantua because he fights and kills Tybalt in a street duel.

Exam tip: Remember the sequence of deaths: Mercutio, then Tybalt (leading to Romeo's banishment to Mantua), and much later Paris at the tomb. Whenever "banishment" appears, link it to Tybalt's death, and the place is always Mantua.