Act 2 Quotes

Question 1

Mislike me not for my complexion

Answer 1

Morocco to Portia

Question 2

if you choose wrong
Never to speak to lady afterward
In a way of marraige:

Answer 2

Portia to Morocco (new information)

Question 3

Take leave of thy old master and inquire
My lodging out.

Answer 3

Bassanio to Lancelot with Gratiano and Gobbo present

Question 4

Valiant

Answer 4

Morocco to Portia

Question 5

Lottery of my destiny

Answer 5

Portia to Morocco

Question 6

I must go with you to Belmont

Answer 6

Gratiano to Bassanio

Question 7

I do feast to-night

Answer 7

Bassanio to Leonardo

Question 8

Our house is hell

Answer 8

Jessica to Lancelot

Question 9

Lorenzo

Answer 9

Jessica to Lancelot

Question 10

This letter

Answer 10

Jessica to Lancelot

Question 11

Secretly

Answer 11

Jessica to Lancelot

Question 12

Get

Answer 12

Lancelot to Jessica (beget= concieve)

Question 13

Alack, what a 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. O Lorenzo,
If thou kept promise, I shall end this strife,
Become a Christian and thy loving wife.

Answer 13

Jessica to herself, soliloquy (rhyming couplet)

Question 14

Slink

Answer 14

Lorenzo to Gratiano, Salarino and Salanio

Question 15

Disguise

Answer 15

Lorenzo to Gratiano, Salarino and Salanio

Question 16

What gold and jewels she is furnish’d with

Answer 16

Lorenzo to Gratiano

Question 17

I am not bid for love, they flatter me:
But yet I’ll go in hate, to feed upon the prodigal Christian.

Answer 17

Shylock to Jessica and Lancelot

Question 18

I am right loath to go:
There is some ill brewing towards my rest,
For I did dream if money-bags to-night.

Answer 18

Shylock to Jessica and Lancelot (foreshadowing)

Question 19

Nor thrust your head into the public street

Answer 19

Shylock to Jessica with Lancelot on the side (distain for Christians)

Question 20

gaze on Christian fools with varnish’d faces,

Answer 20

Shylock to Jessica with Lancelot on the side (distain for Christian)

Question 21

My sober house

Answer 21

Shylock to Jessica with Lancelot

Question 22

Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost,
I have a father, you a daughter lost.

Answer 22

Jessica by herself but to Shylock

Question 23

This casket

Answer 23

Jessica to Lorenzo

Question 24

Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.

Answer 24

Jessica to Lorenzo

Question 25

No masque to-night: the wind is come about;

Answer 25

Antonio to Gratiano

Question 26

'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'

Answer 26

Morocco to Portia (gold)

Question 27

'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'

Answer 27

Morocco to Portia (silver)

Question 28

'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'

Answer 28

Morocco to Portia (dull lead)

Question 29

Leaden

Answer 29

Morocco to Portia

Question 30

I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.

Answer 30

Morocco to Portia

Question 31

'Justice! find the girl; She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.'

Answer 31

Salanio to Salarino quoting Shylock (does our sympathy change for Shylock?)

Question 32

Let good Antonio look he keep his day, Or he shall pay for this.

Answer 32

Salanio to Salarino (NB)

Question 33

I reason'd with a French man yesterday, Who told me, in a narrow seas that part The French and English, there miscarried A vessel of our country richly fraught: I thought upon Antonio when he told me; And wish'd in silence that it were not his.

Answer 33

Salarino to Salanio (foreshadowing)

Question 34

Prince of Arragon

Answer 34

Nerissa to servent

Question 35

A young Venetian

Answer 35

Servant to Nerissa and Portia

Question 36

Gifts of rich value

Answer 36

Servant to Nerissa and Portia