Merchant of Venice Workbook Answers Act 3 – Unsolved Comperhension Passages – ICSE Class 10 & 9 English
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Act III, Sc.I
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Give the background to this conversation?
Q.2 Why does Shylock blame the two and for what?
Q.3 Explain Salarino’s remarks in the extract?
Q.4 What have the two been discussing before Shylock’s arrival?
Q.5 Where are they now?
Act III, Sc.II
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 To whom is Portia talking to and where?
Q.2 Who else are there?
Q.3 What had Portia said at the beginning of this passage and why?
Q.4 Why can she not express her love clearly?
Q.5 Write the meanings of: ‘forsworn’ and ‘miss’.
Passage – 2
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Explain. What is the significance of music here?
Q.2 Give explanation of the extract?
Q.3 What will the music be if Bassanio wins?
Q.4 What is Portia’s state of mind now?
Q.5 How does she describe Bassanio as he goes to make his choice?
Passage – 3
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 To whom does Bassanio compare himself with and how?
Q.2 What does Bassanio call the artist? Why?.
Q.3 Who or what does wrong to whom? How?
Q.4 Write the meanings of ‘confirm’d’, ‘sign’d’ and ‘ratified’.
Q.5 How had Portia felt after her father had made the will?
Passage – 4
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 What does Portia want to clarify from Nerissa?
Q.2 Who is Nerissa?
Q.3 How has Gratiano secured a wife and on what condition?
Q.4 How does Gratiano compare himself to Bassanio?
Q.5 In what capacity has Gratiano come to Belmont?
Passage – 5
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 What is Portia told about Antonio?
Q.2 Name the place where Antonio’s ships had gone?
Q.3 Who had given the news of Antonio’s misfortune?
Q.4 How had Shylock behaved on hearing this news?
Q.5 Which two things does she tell Bassanio to do at once?
Act III, Sc.III
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Where are the speakers?
Q.2 Who else is with them?
Q.3 Who has just left?
Q.4 Who seeks Antonio’s life and why? Write in detail?
Q.5 Why is the Duke unable to help Antonio?
Act III, Sc.IV
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Where is Portia?
Q.2 Who else are there?
Q.3 What was said to her that she speaks like, this?
Q.4 What good things has she done now?
Q.5 How does she describe the likeness between her husband and his bosom friend?
Act III, Sc.V
Passage – 1
Read the above extract and answer the questions that follow.
Q.1 Where are the speakers?
Q.2 How and why have they come here?
Q.3 How will Jessica be saved?
Q.4 How is that alternative not liked by Launcelot?
Q.5 What is his reason for having a grudge against Jews?
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