Merchant of Venice Workbook Answers Act 4 – Unsolved Comperhension Passages – ICSE Class 10 & 9 English
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Act IV, Sc.I
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Who is a ‘stony adversary’?
Q.2 Write the meaning of ‘inhuman wretch’, ‘void’ and ‘dram’?
Q.3 What made the person a ‘story adversary’? Explain?
Q.4 When does this ‘inhuman wretch’ enter the place and how does the Duke plead with him?
Q.5 Why is the Duke sorry for the condemned man?
Passage – 2
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Explain the argument in simple English?
Q.2 How does Antonio feel now?
Q.3 What does Shylock answer when Bassanio offers him three thousand ducats?
Q.4 Why does Shylock hate Antonio so much? Explain?
Q.5 Give another side of Shylock’s character that makes him a normal human being?
Passage – 3
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Why must the Jew be merciful?
Q.2 Explain the lines on mercy in the extract?
Q.3 How is mercy ‘twice bless’d’?
Q.4 Whom does mercy suit the best?
Q.5 What do we pray for and what does that prayer teach us?
Passage – 4
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 What hold does the law have on the “Jew?
Q.2 What other ‘holds’ has Portia already revealed to the Jew?
Q.3 Why does Portia ask Shylock to beg, to whom and for what?
Q.4 Give two examples of kindness shown by the Duke?
Q.5 What mercy does Antonio render him?
Passage – 5
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 What makes the Duke say‘I am sorry’?
Q.2 How does Antonio’s efforts at gratification bear fruit?
Q.3 Why does Portia at first refuse to take anything?
Q.4 How does Bassanio go on with his persuasion?
Q.5 How does this episode get resolved amicably?
Act IV, Sc.II
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Where are the speakers?
Q.2 Who is with them?
Q.3 Why is that person here? What has he brought?
Q.4 Where were Portia and Nerissa going now? For what?
Q.5 What purpose does this scene serve?
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