Merchant of Venice Workbook Answers Act 1 – Unsolved Comperhension Passages – ICSE Class 10 & 9 English
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Act I, Sc.I
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 To whom is Solanio speaking? Who else is there?
Q.2 Explain the second and third lines of the extract.
Q.3 What is meant by ‘venture’?
Q.4 In what context the meanings of ‘argosies’, ‘burghers’, ‘signiors’ and ‘traffickers’ have been used?
Q.5 Why is Solanio giving all these reasons?
Passage – 2
Read the above extract and answer the questfons that follow.
Q.1 How does Salarino refer to one of ‘worthier friends’?
Q.2 Whom does Salarino want to feel merry and why?
Q.3 How has Salarino been trying to cheer his friend up?
Q.4 Where do the others promise to meet?
Q.5 Whom the ‘worthier friends’ leave behind?
Passage – 3
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Where are the speakers?
Q.2 Who else had already made their appearances?
Q.3 What is Bassanio’s financial and emotional condition?
Q.4 Who has caused above condition?
Q.5 What had Bassanio to comment on that person?
Passage – 4
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Name the lady and her maid-in-waiting?
Q.2 Which three qualities of her’s are described here?
Q.3 With whom is the lady compared and how?
Q.4 What does Bassanio want from Antonio and why?
Q.5 With whom is the lady compared and how?
Act I, Sc.II
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 What change in Portia’s mood can be found here?
Q.2 What do ‘over – name’ and ‘level’ mean here?
Q.3 How far is Nerissa responsible in changing Portia’s mood?
Q.4 Who is the second one to be described and how?
Q.5 How does Portia describe the gentleman mentioned in the extract?
Passage – 2
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Who is‘he’?
Q.2 How does Portia feel towards him?
Q.3 What do Nerissa’s words imply?
Q.4 What are the difficulties between Portia and the Englishman?
Q.5 What quality of Portia is revealed from all these descriptions?
Act I, Sc.III
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Why does Bassanio need three thousand ducats?
Q.2 Why can’t his rich friend Antonio supply him with the amount?
Q.3 What about the other problems of the merchant of Venice?
Q.4 Give the meanings of ‘debating’, ‘present store’ and ‘gross’?
Q.5 What does the extract imply?
Passage – 2
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 What is the story of Jacob?
Q.2 What does Shylock think of ‘thrift’ in Jacob’s case?
Q.3 Why does Antonio not agree with him?
Q.4 Why does the phrase “the devil quoting the scripture” arise?
Q.5 Why is Shylock dilly-dallying before saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’?
Passage – 3
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Write what you know about Father Abram?
Q.2 How does Shylock try to convince Bassanio that his motive is harmless?
Q.3 How is the entire matter solved?
Q.4 Who is the ‘unthrifty knave’?
Q.5 How does Shylock’s suspicion of him come true later?
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