Act 1 Scene 1

Question 1

“In sooth I know not why I am so sad”

Answer 1

And out of doubt you do me now more wrong in making question of my uttermost than if you had made waste of all i have.

Question 2

“Your mind is tossing on the ocean”

Answer 2

Thou know’st that all my fortunes are at sea

Question 3

“Believe me no I thank my fortune for it”

Answer 3

Try what my credit can in Venice do, that shall be racked even to the uttermost

Question 4

“My ventures are not in one bottom trusted”

Answer 4

I have disabled mine estate

Question 5

“Here comes Bassanio your most noble kinsman”

Answer 5

Than my faint means would grant continuance

Question 6

“My purse, my person, my extremest means lie all unlocked to your occasions”

Answer 6

.but my chief care is to come fairly off from the great debts

Question 7

To you Antonio, I owe the most in money and in love

Answer 7

To find the other forth, and by adventuring, I oft found both

Question 8

In Belmont, there is a lady richly left, and she is fair, fairer than that word, of wonderous virtues.”

Answer 8

Had i but the means