merchant of Venice act 2 quotes

Question 1

Mislike me not for my complexion

Answer 1

Morocco to Portia

Question 2

if you choose wrong
Never to speak to lady afterward
In a way of marraige:

Answer 2

Portia to Morocco (new information)

Question 3

Take leave of thy old master and inquire
My lodging out.

Answer 3

Bassanio to Lancelot with Gratiano and Gobbo present

Question 4

Lottery of my destiny

Answer 4

Portia to Morocco

Question 4

I must go with you to Belmont

Answer 4

Gratiano to Bassanio

Question 5

I do feast to-night

Answer 5

Bassanio to Leonardo

Question 6

Our house is hell

Answer 6

Jessica to Lancelot

Question 6

Alack, what a heinous sin is it in me
To be ashamed to be my father’s child!
But though I am a daughter to his blood,
I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,
If thou kept promise, I shall end this strife,
Become a Christian and thy loving wife.

Answer 6

Jessica to herself, soliloquy (rhyming couplet)

Question 6

What gold and jewels she is furnish’d with

Answer 6

Lorenzo to Gratiano

Question 6

I am not bid for love, they flatter me:
But yet I’ll go in hate, to feed upon the prodigal Christian.

Answer 6

Shylock to Jessica and Lancelot

Question 6

I am right loath to go:
There is some ill brewing towards my rest,
For I did dream if money-bags to-night.

Answer 6

Shylock to Jessica and Lancelot (foreshadowing)

Question 6

Nor thrust your head into the public street

Answer 6

Shylock to Jessica with Lancelot on the side (distain for Christians)

Question 6

gaze on Christian fools with varnish’d faces,

Answer 6

Shylock to Jessica with Lancelot on the side (distain for Christian)

Question 6

My sober house

Answer 6

Shylock to Jessica with Lancelot

Question 6

Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost,
I have a father, you a daughter lost.

Answer 6

Jessica by herself but to Shylock

Question 6

Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.

Answer 6

Jessica to Lorenzo

Question 7

No masque to-night: the wind is come about;

Answer 7

Antonio to Gratiano

Question 7

‘Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.’

Answer 7

Morocco to Portia (gold)

Question 7

‘Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.’

Answer 7

Morocco to Portia (silver)

Question 7

‘Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.’

Answer 7

Morocco to Portia (dull lead)

Question 7

I’ll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.

Answer 7

Morocco to Portia

Question 7

‘Justice! find the girl;
She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.’

Answer 7

Salanio to Salarino quoting Shylock (does our sympathy change for Shylock?)

Question 7

Let good Antonio look he keep his day,
Or he shall pay for this.

Answer 7

Salanio to Salarino (NB)

Question 7

I reason’d with a French man yesterday,
Who told me, in a narrow seas that part
The French and English, there miscarried
A vessel of our country richly fraught:
I thought upon Antonio when he told me;
And wish’d in silence that it were not his.

Answer 7

Salarino to Salanio (foreshadowing)

Question 7

A young Venetian

Answer 7

Servant to Nerissa and Portia

Question 7

Gifts of rich value

Answer 7

Servant to Nerissa and Portia