Who Am I
Who is the play's most problematic character?
Who is Shylock
Who created the play?
William Shakespeare
"I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; But I will not eat with you, drink with you, Nor pray with you.
Shylock
The audience is first introduced to Shylock in which of these scenes?
A. The Casket Scene.
B. The Judgment Scene.
C. The Borrowing Scene
What is C. The Borrowing Scene?
Where is the Setting?
Venice
Who is Shylock's original servant?
Who is Guinevere
This is a party that is held at night and involves costumes?
Venice Carnival
Miss like me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbor and near bred...
Prince of Morocco
This man wants a pound of Antonio's flesh and is often metaphorically referred to as a dog
Shylock
What are two locations for the settings?
Venice and Belmont
Who is a handmaid in waiting and a close confidant to a wealthy heiress?
Who is Nerissa
What were the caskets made of?
silver, gold and lead
"In Belmont is a lady richly left,
And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,
Of wondrous virtues"
Bassanio
Antonio has inspired such animosity in Shylock because Antonio lends out money at a much lower percentage. What is True or False?
What is True.
The details of the Jessica's escaped are planned by her Christian lover? True or false?
False
Who is described as a "funeral gown"?
Who is Moroccan Prince
A ducat is a type of ____________ used in Italy in the Elizabethan Period
What is money
"If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good
heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should
be glad of his approach. If he have the condition of
a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather
he should shrive me than wise me."
Portia
What happened to Antonio's assets?
What is they are lost/ damaged at sea.
Jessica is ashamed of being a Jew because...
what is because Jews are hated by most of the people in Venice and her Father the Jew has a ba reputation which she has to bear as well.
"He is of a dreamily meditative nature, end enjoys the beauty of music and moonlight." The character described is
Lorenzo
The first scene in the play is "the borrowing scene, the love scene or the casket scene"?
What is the borrowing scene?
"Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men
at their death have good inspirations. Therefore the
lottery, that he hath devised in these three chests
of gold, silver and lead, whereof who chooses his
meaning chooses you, will no doubt never be
chosen by any rightly but one who shall rightly
love."
Nerissa
What does Jessica take from Shylock when she runs?
what is ducats and jewels
In many conversations Shylock makes reference to this during his conversation with Antonio and Bassanio?