MoV Act 2
Why does Morocco want to make an incision on his skin?
To prove that his blood is the reddest
Who does Shylock refer to as a bankrupt and a prodigal?
Antonio
Why does the poet say that a tree planter plants "the forest's heritage"?
Because one tree gives rise to many more, which ultimately becomes a whole forest.
How does the author show that Muni's fortunes had declined gradually?
From a flock of forty, his stock had now come down to just two goats.
Why does Chief Seattle tell the White Chief, "Your God is our God!"?
He says that his people have been forsaken by both the Gods. They are like orphan children.
What conflict is Launcelot facing at the beginning of Act 2 Scene 2? Why is he conflicted?
Whether to leave Shylock or not.
He has no reason to leave other than the fact that Shylock is a Jew.
Explain the metaphor in these lines which Salerio says to Shylock: "I, for my part, knew the tailor that made the wings she flew withal."
Salerio compares Jessica to a bird and says that he knew every detail of her "flight", including the tailor who made her disguise. He compares Lorenzo to a tailor because he is the one who planted the idea of flight in Jessica's mind and helps her to escape.
Explain any one theme of The Bangle Sellers.
Stereotypical presentation of women.
Explain any one simile used by Chief Seattle to show how his people are less in number than the Whites.
White people are like the grass that covers vast prairies. His people are like the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
The Whites wax stronger every day while his people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return.
Why did Muni never go to school? What did he do instead?
In those days, only Brahmins went to school.
Instead, he had to go out and work in the fields from morning to night, from sowing to harvest time.
Shylock says that Launcelot is snail-slow profit and sleeps by day more than the wild cat. So he is happy to send him to Bassanio, where he will waste his money (his borrowed purse).
In what context does Shylock say, "The villainy you teach me I will execute"?
He says this to prove that since Christians and Jews are alike in every other aspect, they will also take revenge if wronged, which has been taught to them by their Christian counterparts.
Explain the irony in the poem After Blenheim.
Old Kaspar is actually a victim of the war but still persists in calling it a great victory.
Describe Miss Fairchild's reaction when she sees the handcuff on Mr. Easton's hand.
The glad look changed to bewildered horror, the glow faded from her cheeks and her lips parted in a vague, relaxing distress
Explain some of the effects of war as described by Old Kaspar.
Thousands of men slain
Dwellings burnt to the ground
Families forced to flee
Country wasted with fire and sword
Many childing mothers and newborn babies killed
What news does Salerio get from a Frenchman?
That an Italian ship had sunk in the English Channel. It was laden with riches.
What news has Salerio heard on the Rialto?
That Antonio's ship full of riches was wrecked in the Goodwin Sands, an area in the English Channel where many ships get wrecked.
Explain both the poetic devices used in the line "Continuous as the stars that shine".
Simile and Hyperbole
What happens at the end of the story A Horse and Two Goats? Explain from the perspective of each of the main characters.
The foreigner loads the horse statue in his station wagon and drives away happily.
Muni takes his 100 rupees and returns to his wife, thinking that he has sold his goats. But the goats follow him.
His wife thinks that he has stolen the money and threatens to go to her parents' house and leave him to face the police.
Explain these lines said by Portia, to the Prince of Arragon: "To offend, and judge, are distinct offices, And of opposed natures."
To commit an offense and to pass judgment on it are contradictory actions. The person who makes a mistake is not in a position to judge his own actions and pass judgment on himself.
What news does Tubal bring from Genoa?
Jessica had already left, but he heard that she had spent fourscore ducats in a single night and had traded Shylock's turquoise ring for a monkey.
What colors of bangles are suitable for a young maiden? Why?
Silver, blue, pale pink and green.
Light colors suit her innocence, purity and naïveté.
Pick out the elements of suspense / horror in the story A Face in the Dark.
Wind whistling through the pine trees made sad, eerie sounds.
Batteries in the torch were running down so the light was flickering.
Strange soundless weeping of the boy.
He had no face.
Watchman also had no face.
Wind blew the lamp out, so the reader does not know what happens next.