Merchant of Venice Workbook Answers Act 2 – Unsolved Comperhension Passages – ICSE Class 10 & 9 English
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Act II, Sc.I
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Why does the speaker thank Portia?
Q.2 Where are they going now?
Q.3 When will the hazards be made?
Q.4 What are your views about the Prince of Morocco and why?
Q.5 The speaker has earlier too thanked Portia. What was the reason then?
Act II, Sc.II
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Who is Launcelot?
Q.2 How does the ‘fiend’ tempt him?
Q.3 Who is opposing the ‘fiend’ and how?
Q.4 What does Launcelot tell both of them?
Q.5 Why does Launcelot want to leave his old master?
Passage – 2
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 How does Launcelot reveal his real identity to Gobbo?
Q.2 How is Gobbo ultimately convinced?
Q.3 Which animal is mentioned here?
Q.4 What jocular remark does Launcelot make now?
Q.5 What decision has Launcelot made? Why?
Passage – 3
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 How did Bassanio behave with Gobbo at first?
Q.2 Which are the three examples that are wrongly used here?
Q.3 What do ‘cater-cousins’, ‘fruitify’ and ‘suit’ mean?
Q.4 Why is Bassanio irritated now?
Q.5 Which old proverb does Launcelot mention here?
Passage – 4
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Where are the speakers?
Q.2 Who has just gone out and with what orders?
Q.3 What does Bassanio tell Gratiano after ‘ But hear thee, Gratiano?
Q.4 How does Gratiano satisfy Bassanio?
Q.5 What about ‘tonight’? How would Gratiano like to behave about which Bassanio also approves?
Act II, Sc.III
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Where is Launcelot?
Q.2 To whom is Launcelot speaking?
Q.3 Why is the ‘most sweet Jew’ sorry to see him leave?
Q.4 Why is the person spoken to ‘asham’d’?
Q.5 Who did the person spoken to address Launcelot? On what note does the scene end?
Act II, Sc.IV
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 How does Jessica feel at her father’s house?
Q.2 Why does she feel sorry there?
Q.3 What opinion can be formed about Shylock?
Q.4 What has Jessica written in the letter?
Q.5 What does Lorenzo wish for Shylock?
Act II, Sc.V
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Where are the speakers?
Q.2 With whom is Shylock talking?
Q.3 What difference between Shylock and Bassanio is he hinting at?
Q.4 What does ‘gormandize’ mean?
Q.5 Why is Shylock calling Jessica? What does he give her and why?
Passage – 2
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 What are masques?
Q.2 Who are going to play them?
Q.3 What is an essential element in a masque?
Q.4 What advice does Shylock give Jessica? Give five examples?
Q.5 What does Launcelot whisper to Jessica before leaving?
Act II, Sc. VI
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Where are the speakers?
Q.2 How are they dressed?
Q.3 For whom are they waiting?
Q.4 Who is Venus?
Q.5 What is correct — pigeons/doves?
Passage – 2
Read the above extract and answer the* questions that follow.
Q.1 What are Jessica’s feelings now?
Q.2 What do ‘make fast’, ‘gild myself’ and ‘straight’ mean?
Q.3 What has Jessica been advised by her father?
Q.4 Where is her father now?
Q.5 Why has he gone there?
Act II, Sc. VII
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Where are the speakers?
Q.2 What had Portia commented when Morocco had arrived?
Q.3 How does Morocco describe the silver casket?
Q.4 Why was he tempted to choose the silver one?
Q.5 Write the inscriptions exactly as they are engraved on the caskets?
Act II, Sc. VIII
Passage – 1
Q.1 Who is the ‘kinder gentleman’?
Q.2 Why are they going to him?
Q.3 What has Salarino heard and from whom?
Q.4 Who does it change their mood?
Q.5 What role do these two characters play?
Act II, Sc.IX
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Assess the prince’s character?
Q.2 Why does prince call the silver casket, a treasure-house?
Q.3 What does ‘title’ mean?
Q.4 What ‘title’ does he read?
Q.5 How can the situation be reversed, according to him?
Passage – 2
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Explain Portia’s line in the extract?
Q.2 What does the ‘schedule’ say?
Q.3 With what comments does he leave?
Q.4 Why had he paused for a long time after opening the casket?
Q.5 How do you feel at Arragon’s comment in the extract?
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