WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

If I can catch him once upon the hip,

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,

Even there where merchants most do congregate,

On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift,

Which he calls interest;......

(Act 1 Scene Three, lines 39-)

The underlined expression illustrates

• A. assonance
• B. metaphor
• C. wit
• D. euphemism

Read the extract below and answer the question

.......'twere damnation

To think so basealthough; it were too gross

To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave; ?

Or shall I think in silver she's immured;

Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?

(Act 11 scene seven, lines 49 - 53)

The person referred to in the extract is

• A. Jessica
• B. Antonio
• C. Balthazar
• D. Portia

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

If I can catch him once upon the hip,

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,

Even there where merchants most do congregate,

On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift,

Which he calls interest;......

(Act 1 Scene Three, lines 39-)

''my well-won thrift'' is

• A. sarcasm
• B. a parody
• C. an understatement
• D. an allegory

Read the extract below and answer the question

Alack, what heinous sin is it in me

To be ashamed to be my father's child!

But though I am a daughter to his blood

I am not to his manners.....

(Act 11 Scene Three lines 15 - 18)

The speaker is

• A. Tubal
• B. Portia
• C. Morocco
• D. Jessica

''Horrendous horrors haunted Helen's happiness'' illustrates

• A. alliteration
• B. rhythm
• C. repetition
• D. assonance

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

If I can catch him once upon the hip,

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,

Even there where merchants most do congregate,

On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift,

Which he calls interest;......

(Act 1 Scene Three, lines 39-)

From the extract the speaker is

• A. kind
• B. tricky
• C. vindictive
• D. angry

A situation in which the audience knows more than the character does, is an instance of

• A. comic relief
• B. interior monologue
• C. dramatic irony
• D. poetic licence

Read the extract below and answer the question

Alack, what heinous sin is it in me

To be ashamed to be my father's child!

But though I am a daughter to his blood

I am not to his manners.....

(Act 11 Scene Three lines 15 - 18)

The speaker is in love with

• A. Gratiano
• B. Lorenzo
• C. Antonio
• D. Bassanio

Read the passage below and answer the question

Stella had to do her midweek shopping. There were four people before her in the queue. She watched the blond at the counter striking feverishly away at the numbers on the cold, light-flickering machine. There seemed to be a raging war between two mechanical contraptions, one, robot-like and the other stationary, but able to respond to the extent of punching, by sharp flickers of red light. It was an all consuming battle,as a swift hand positioned the price label of the ceaseless flow of item on the coneyor belt and the right delivered the punches. The intending owners were more unnoticed onlookers. Anyway, there is a belated recognition of them in ''thank you, call again balance sheet. '' It's all so mechanical, she thought. I mean, any creature-baboon, extraterrestial being or anything - could as well receive the same treatment as long as the conditions are met- ''bring to the counter, labelled items from the shelves.''Where is the human touch? She wondered.

''Where is the human touch?'' conveys an impression of

• A. disappointment
• B. expectation
• C. discontent
• D. indifference

Read the extract below and answer the question

.......'twere damnation

To think so basealthough; it were too gross

To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave; ?

Or shall I think in silver she's immured;

Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?

(Act 11 scene seven, lines 49 - 53)

''Though'' in the extract implies

• A. meditating on his love
• B. associating the portrait with lead
• C. challenging rival suitors
• D. reflecting on his fate