Measure for Measure: Angelo

Question 1

Test, metal

Answer 1

Angelo: Let there be some more test made of my metal

To Duke, [1:1,48]

Question 2

Drowsy, neglected act

Answer 2

Claudio: This new governor awakes me all the unrolled penalties
Which have, like unscour’d armour, hung by th’ wall […]
Now puts the drowsy and neglected act
Freshly on me: ‘tis surely for a name

[1:2,152]

Question 3

Blood

Answer 3

Duke: scarce confesses that his blood flows

To a Friar, [1:3,51]

Question 4

Snow broth

Answer 4

Lucio: a man whose blood
Is very snow-broth

To Isabella, [1:4,70]

Question 5

Censure, judgement

Answer 5

Angelo: When I that censure him do so offend,
Let mine own judgement pattern out my own death

To Escalus, [2:1,29]

Question 6

Evils

Answer 6

Angelo says in his soliloquy that he is protecting against “future evils”

[2:2,96]

Question 7

Raze the sanctuary

Answer 7

Angelo: Having waste ground enough,
Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
And pitch our evils there?

Soliloquy, [2:2,170]

Question 8

Desire, foully

Answer 8

Angelo: What dost thou, or what art thou Angelo?
Dost thou desire her foully for those things
That make her good?

Soliloquy, [2:2,173-5]

Question 9

Empty words

Answer 9

Angelo: Heaven hath my empty words

[2:4,2]

Question 10

Sensual race

Answer 10

Angelo: Now I give my sensual race the rein:
Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite

To Isabella, [2:4,160]

Question 11

Yielding up thy body

Answer 11

Angelo: Redeem thy brother
By yielding up thy body to my will
Or else he must not only die the death,
But thy unkindness shall his death draw out 
To ling'ring sufferance

To Isabella, [2:4,162]

Question 12

False>true

Answer 12

Angelo: My false o’erweighs your true

To Isabella, [2:4,169]

Question 13

Riotous youth, nothing goes right

Answer 13

Angelo: He should have lived,
Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
Might in the times to come have ta’en revenge,
By so receiving a dishonour’d life
With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived!
Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not.

Soliloquy, [4:5,26]

Question 14

Wits not firm

Answer 14

Angelo: My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm

To Duke, [5:1,35]

Question 15

Marriage which was broke off

Answer 15

Angelo: My lord, I must confess I know this woman:
And five years since there was some speech of marriage
Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off,
Partly for that her promised proportions
Came short of composition, but in chief
For that her reputation was disvalued
In levity

To Duke, [5:1,215]

Question 16

Confession

Answer 16

Angelo: But let my trial be mine own confession:
Immediate sentence then and sequent death
Is all the grace I beg.

To Duke, [5:1,370]