act 1 scene 3

Question 1

lines 36-37

Answer 1

‘How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a christian;’

Question 2

lines 38-40

Answer 2

‘But more, for that in low simplicity he lends out money gratis, and brings down the rat of usance here with us in Venice.’

Question 3

lines 41-42

Answer 3

‘If i can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.’

Question 4

lines 43-48

Answer 4

‘He hates our sacred nation, and he rails even there where merchants mot do congregate On me, my bargains, and my well won thrift which he calls interest. Curs’d be my tribe if i forgive him’

Question 5

line 93

Answer 5

‘the devil can cite scripture for his purpose’

Question 6

line 106-107

Answer 6

‘You call me a mis-believer, cut throat dog, and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine’

Question 7

lines 125- 127, 130-132

Answer 7

‘i am as like to call thee so again,to spit on thee again, to spurn thee too….lend it rather to thine enemy, who if he break, thou mayst with better face exact the penalty.’

Question 8

lines 140 - 146

Answer 8

‘seal me there your single bond,and,in a merry sport, if you repay me not on such a day, in such a place….let the forfeit be nominated for an equal pound of your fair flesh’