Merchant Of Venice

Question 0

What does Antonio say about his ships at the beginning of the play

Answer 0

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted

Question 1

What does Antonio say at the start of the play to show he is sad?

Answer 1

In sooth,I know not why I am so sad

Question 2

What does Antonio say to Gratanio?

Answer 2

I hold the world but as the world, Gratanio; A stage where every man must play a part , and mine a sad one

Question 3

Bassanio says to Antonio about his debt

Answer 3

How much I have disabled mine estate

Question 4

Bassanio to Antonio about how much he loves him and owes him

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Bassanio says about portia

Answer 5

In Belmont is a lady richly left, 
and she is fair,and fairer than that word, of wonderful virtues;
Sometimes from her eyes 
I did receive fair speechless messages;
Her name is portia

Question 6

Portia says about her fathers wishes in his will about her being controlled

Answer 6

I may neither chose who I would nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father

Question 7

Nerissa says to portia about the chests

Answer 7

The lottery that he hath devised in these three chests of gold, silver, and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen rightly but one who you shall rightly love

Question 8

Portia says to nerissa about Bassanio

Answer 8

I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of thy praise

Question 9

Shy locks response to basssanios invitation to dinner

Answer 9

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you nor pray with you

Question 10

Shylocks hate for Antonio about his moneylending

Answer 10

I hate him for he is a Christian;
But more for that low simplicity
He lends out money gratis, and brings down
The rate of usance here with us in Venice

Question 11

Shylock talking to Antonio about the way he treats him

Answer 11

Signior Antonio, many a time and oft
In the Rialto you have rated me
about my moneys and my usances.
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe
You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
And all for the use of that which is my own.

Question 12

Antonios response to shylock “signior Antonio

Answer 12

I am as like to call thee so again,

To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too

Question 13

Shylocks conditions to the bond

Answer 13

An equal pound
Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
In what part of your body pleaseth me

Question 14

The gold casket

Answer 14

Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire

Question 15

Silver casket

Answer 15

Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves

Question 16

Lead casket

Answer 16

Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath

Question 17

The scroll of the gold casket

Answer 17

All that glitters is not gold;

Often have you heard that told

Question 18

Shylocks obsession with money

Answer 18

My daughter!o my ducats!o my daughter

Question 19

Salerios kind words about Antonio

Answer 19

A kinder gentlemen treads not on this earth

Question 20

Shylocks speech about the Jews

Answer 20

I am a Jew. Hath
Not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands,
organs
Feelings,sense affections, passions? Fed by the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
A Christian is?
If you prick us ,do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison
Us,do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we
Not
Revenge?

Question 21

Lead scroll

Answer 21

You that choose not by the view,

Chance as fair and choose as true

Question 22

Portias love for “Lord Bassanio

Answer 22

You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,
Such as I am; though for myself alone,
I would not be ambitious in my wish,
To wish myself much better; yet, for you,
I would trebled twenty times myself;
A thousand times more fair, ten thousand
Times more rich

Question 23

Bassanio describing Antonio to portia

Answer 23

The dearest friend to me, the kindest man

Question 24

Shy locks demand for his bond

Answer 24

I’ll have my bond; speak not against my bond:

I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond

Question 25

The duke about Shylock

Answer 25

A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch
U capable of pity, voil and empty
From any dram of mercy

Question 26

Portias quality of mercy speech

Answer 26

The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath; it is twice bless’d;
It bless’d the him that gives and him that takes
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest

Question 27

Themes

Answer 27

Love and hatred

Question 28

Love of a friend

Answer 28

Antonio and Bassanio

Portia and nerissa

Question 29

Father and child love

Answer 29

Portia and her father good relationship

Shylock and Jessica bad

Question 30

Romantic love

Answer 30

Bassanio and portia
Lorenzo and Jessica
Gratis no and nerissa