Merchant of Venice

Question 1

Name of the Jewish Usurer

Answer 1

Shylock

Question 2

Name of the Princess of Belmont

Answer 2

Portia

Question 3

Who is the Merchant of Venice

Answer 3

Antonio

Question 4

Who is Shylock’s daughter?

Answer 4

Jessica

Question 5

Portia’s servant

Answer 5

Nerissa

Question 6

Shylock’s servant?

Answer 6

Lancelet

Question 7

Antonio’s talkative friend

Answer 7

Gratiano

Question 8

Man who wishes to marry Jessica

Answer 8

Lorenzo

Question 9

Dark skinned suitor to Portia

Answer 9

Morocco

Question 10

Characters in 1.1

Answer 10

Antonio, bassanio, gratiano, Lorenzo, salarino, solanio

Question 11

What characters are in 1.2?

Answer 11

Portia, Nerrissa

Question 12

What characters are in 1.3?

Answer 12

Bassanio, Shylock, Antonio

Question 13

What characters are in 2.1?

Answer 13

Portia, Morocco

Question 14

What characters are in 2.2?

Answer 14

Lancelet, Old Gobbo (Lancelet’s father), Bassanio, Gratiano

Question 15

Characters in 2.3?

Answer 15

Jessica and lancelet

Question 16

Who is Antonio’s greatest friend?

Answer 16

Bassanio

Question 17

What are the characters in 2.4?

Answer 17

Lorenzo, Gratiano, Salarino, Solanio, lancelet

Question 18

What characters are in 2.5?

Answer 18

Shylock, Jessica, Lancelet

Question 19

What characters are in 2.6?

Answer 19

Gratiano, Lorenzo, salarino, Jessica, Antonio

Question 20

What characters are in 2.5?

Answer 20

Shylock, Jessica, Lancelet

Question 21

What characters are in 2.6?

Answer 21

Gratiano, Lorenzo, salarino, Jessica, Antonio

Question 22

What characters are in 2.7?

Answer 22

Portia and Morocco

Question 23

What characters are in 2.8?

Answer 23

Salarino and solanio

Question 24

What characters are in 2.9?

Answer 24

Portia and Arragon

Question 25

What characters are in 3.1?

Answer 25

Shylock, tubal, solanio, salarino

Question 26

What characters are in 3.2?

Answer 26

Portia, Bassanio, Gratiano, Nerrissa, Lorenzo, Jessica, messenger

Question 27

What characters are in 3.3?

Answer 27

Shylock, Antonio, solanio

Question 28

What characters are in 3.4?

Answer 28

Portia, Nerrissa, Lorenzo, Jessica, Balthazar

Question 29

What is the home of Portia?

Answer 29

Belmont

Question 30

What is the home of Antonio, Shylock, etc

Answer 30

Venice

Question 31

What religion is Shylock a part of?

Answer 31

He is Jewish

Question 32

What suitor chose the golden chest, and what did it contain?

Answer 32

Morocco chose the golden chest only because of its beauty, it contained a skull with a scroll telling him he was wrong

Question 33

What suitor chose the silver chest, and what did it contain?

Answer 33

Arragon, known for his arrogance, chose the silver chest based on appearance; it contained a picture of a "blinking idiot" and a scroll saying he was wrong

Question 34

What suitor chose the lead chest, and what did it contain?

Answer 34

Bassanio took a risk and chose the lead chest, his choice was not based on appearance; it contained a picture of Portia, "resembling a goddess" as he said, and a scroll saying that he was correct

Question 35

What is the riddle on the gold chest?

Answer 35

He who choseth me shall gain what many men desire

Question 36

What is the riddle on the silver chest?

Answer 36

He who choseth me shall get what he deserves

Question 37

What is the riddle on the lead chest?

Answer 37

He who choseth me must give and hazard all he hath

Question 38

What happens in 4.1/ what are the characters?

Answer 38

Antonio. Bassanio Gratiano. Shylock "Balthazar". "The Clerk" The Duke Bassanio brings money to Shylock to free Antonio, but Shylock refuses the offer, even when it is tripled. Portia, as Balthazar, works a loophole in the bond: Shylock has to take EXACTLY a pound of flesh without a drop of BLOOD. Shylock attempts to accept bassanio's previous offer but is denied, and forced to forfeiting his house and making Lorenzo his heir.

Question 39

Where and when was William Shakespeare born?

Answer 39

April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon

Question 40

What was the name of the suspected writer of Shakespeare's plays?

Answer 40

Edward de Vere

Question 41

What's the name of Shakespeare's acting group?

Answer 41

Lord Chamberlain's Men

Question 42

What's the name of the theatre Shakespeare built?

Answer 42

The Globe Theatre