Key Quotes (NB)

Question 1

be ____,
My ___, my ___, and my extremest ___,
Lie all ______ to your ______.

Answer 1

assured, purse, people, means, unlock’d, occasions
Antonio to Bassanio (theme of love and money)

Question 2

[Aside] How like a fawning _____ he looks!
I ____ him for he is a _____,
But more for that in ____ ______
He lends out money ____ and brings ____
The ___ of ____ here with us in _____,
If I can catch him once ____ a ___,
I will feed ___ the ancient ____ I bear him.

Answer 2

publican
hate, Christian
low simplicity
gratis, down
rate, usance, Venice
upon, hip
fat, grudge
Shylock to himself

Question 3

But lend it rather to thine _____,
Who, if he ____, thou mayst with better _____
Exact the _____.

Answer 3

enemy
breaks, face
penalty
Antonio to Shylock

Question 4

this _____;

Answer 4

casket
Jessica to Lorenzo

Question 5

Let good _____ look he keep his ____,
Or he shall _____ for this.

Answer 5

Antonio, day
pay
Salanio to Antonio

Question 6

revenge… disgraced… hindered…..
Hath not a Jew ___?…
If you ___ us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us do we not ___? if you ___ us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not ___?…
and it shall go hard but I will ___ the ___.

Answer 6

eyes
prick
laugh
revenge
better, instruction
Shylock to Salanio and Salarino

Question 7

but now,
This ___, these ___ and this same ___
Are yours, my ___: I give them with this ___;
Which when you ___ from, lose, or ___ away,
Let it ___ the ruin of your ___
And be my ___ to ___ on you.

Answer 7

house, servants, myself
lord, ring
part, give
presage, love
vantage, exclaim
Portia to Bassanio (subplot of the rings)

Question 8

The ___ cannot deny the ___ of law:

Answer 8

duke, course
Antonio to Salarino and Salanio

Question 9

Then the Jew must be ___.

Answer 9

merciful
Portia to everyone

Question 10

The quality of ___ is not strain’d,
It ___ as the gentle ___ from ___
Upon the ___ beneath: it is twice ___;
It blesseth him that ___ and him that ___.

Answer 10

mercy
droppeth, rain, heaven
place, blest
takes, gives
Portia to Shylock

Question 11

Are there ___ here to weigh
The ___?

Answer 11

balance
flesh
Portia to Shylock

Question 12

___ he do ___ to death

Answer 12

lest, bleed
Portia to Shylock

Question 13

if thou ___ shed
One drop of Christian ___, they ___ and ___
Are, by the ___ of Venice, confiscate
Unto the ___ of Venice.

Answer 13

dost
blood, lands, goods
state
state
Portia to Shylock