Key Merchant of Venice Quotes

Question 1

Hell

Answer 1

‘Our house is hell’

Question 2

Sin

Answer 2

‘What heinous sin in me to be ashamed to be my father’s child’

Question 3

Lock

Answer 3

‘Lock up my doors and when you hear the drums…clamber not up to the casements

Question 4

Shut

Answer 4

‘Do as I bid you; shut the doors after you’

Question 5

Double ducats

Answer 5

‘A sealed bag, two sealed bags of double ducats stolen from me’

Question 6

Dead, ear

Answer 6

‘I would my daughter be dead at my feet and the jewels in her ear

Question 7

Daughter

Answer 7

‘My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian!’

Question 8

Monkeys

Answer 8

‘I wouldn’t have given it away for a wilderness full of monkeys’

Question 9

Blood

Answer 9

‘My daughter is my flesh and blood’

Question 10

Blood, manners

Answer 10

‘A daughter of his blood but not to his manners’

Question 11

O Lorenzo

Answer 11

‘O Lorenzo, if you keep promise I shall end this strife, become a Christian and thy loving wife’

Question 12

Three months

Answer 12

‘For three months well’

Question 13

Bound

Answer 13

‘Antonio shall become bound well’

Question 14

Hate

Answer 14

‘I hate him for he is a Jew’

Question 15

Nation

Answer 15

‘He hates our sacred nation’

Question 16

Tribe

Answer 16

‘Cursed be my tribe if I forgive him’

Question 17

Eat

Answer 17

‘I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you’

Question 18

Misbeliever

Answer 18

‘You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog and spit upon my Jewish gabardine’

Question 19

Bond

Answer 19

‘Content, I’faith: I’ll speak to such a bond’

Question 20

True

Answer 20

‘I thank God, I thank God! Is it true, is it true?’

Question 21

He is

Answer 21

‘I hate him for he is a Christian’

Question 22

Organs

Answer 22

‘Hath not a Jew organs dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food…subject to the same diseases that a Christian is?’