ENGL 322 Quiz 4 / Exam 4
ENGL 322 Quiz: The Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice
Module 7: Week 7 — Module 8
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “The mathematics and the metaphysics, / Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you; / No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en: / In brief, sir, study what you most effect.”
- In Taming act 4, who is the Pedant pretending to be?
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong, To strive for that which resteth in my choice: I am no breeching scholar in the schools; I’ll not be tied to hours nor ‘pointed times, But learn my lessons as I please myself.
- What art/subject does Hortensio claim to teach Bianca when he pretends to be a tutor?
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “You shall not seal to such a bond for me: I’ll rather dwell in my necessity.”
- On their wedding night, on what virtue does Petruchio preach a sermon to Kate?
- In the choice of the three caskets, which casket does Morocco choose?
- Who is the author of the Italian play from 1509 from which the Lucentio/Bianca subplot of Taming was based?
- The translation of Suppositi, the play upon which the sub-plot of Taming is based, was translated into English by . . .
- Whom does Portia leave in charge of Belmont while she is in court in Venice?
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “Draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves; Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man.”
- When Shylock hears news of Jessica after her elopement, he learns that she has traded a special ring in order to buy a . . .
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath…”
- Portia prevents Shylock from taking the pound of flesh from Antonio through a certain technicality, namely . . .
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, The penalty and forfeit of my bond.”
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “Call you me daughter? now, I promise you You have show’d a tender fatherly regard, To wish me wed to one half lunatic…”
- Identify the speaker from Taming: “…I burn, I pine, I perish…If I achieve not this young modest girl.”
- Choose the correct speaker for the quotation from The Merchant of Venice: “My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate Upon the fortune of this present year.”
- Identify the speaker from Taming: “The more fool you for laying on my duty.”
- In act 3 of the Merchant of Venice, when Bassanio hears that Antonio is in jeopardy to Shylock, he praises Antonio to Portia as a man of honor unsurpassed. What adjective does he use to describe Antonio’s honor?
- Besides forcing the partial forfeiture of his property and a fine, what else does the court order Shylock to do?
- As the defeated Shylock prepares to leave the court without so much as his principal, Portia stops him & quotes a statute from the laws of Venice that places him in jeopardy of death. What is this statute?
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.”
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow’d livery of the burnish’d sun, To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.”
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “And do you tell me of a woman’s tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer’s fire? Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.”
- How much money does Antonio borrow from Shylock?
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.”
- In Taming, as Petruchio and Kate travel the road BACK TO Padua, whom does Kate address on the road as “[y]oung budding virgin” (Act IV, sc. v)?
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring: Let his deservings and my love withal Be valued against your wife’s commandment.”
- In Act V, what is Antonio’s response to Portia’s news (by note) that three of his ships have arrived safely in port?
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “Well, while I live I’ll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring.”
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me. / I did but tell her she mistook her frets…”
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence; And here choose I; joy be the consequence!”
- Lucentio falsely claims his name is Litio as he attempts to woo Bianca.
- Morocco’s casket (besides a note) contains what he calls “a carrion death.”
- In Taming, act V, sc. ii, when she is called, Bianca says she is busy and cannot come to her husband, and then orders him to come to her.
- In act 5, when Baptista sees the “new” Kate enter the wedding feast at Petruchio’s bidding, he rewards Petruchio–or offers to do so–for the transformation (“a new daughter”) with a villa in Padua.
- In Taming, act V, sc. ii, the Widow, when called, simply says she is busy.
- Aragon’s casket (besides a note) contains a mirror.
- The word “supposes” (the name of the play upon which the sub-plot of Taming is based) means appearances.
Set 2
- Aragon’s casket (besides a note) contains a mirror.
- In Taming, act V, sc. ii, the Widow, when called, simply says she is busy.
- In act 5, when Baptista sees the “new” Kate enter the wedding feast at Petruchio’s bidding, he rewards Petruchio–or offers to do so–for the transformation (“a new daughter”) with a villa in Padua.
- The word “supposes” (the name of the play upon which the sub-plot of Taming is based) means appearances.
- Lucentio falsely claims his name is Litio as he attempts to woo Bianca.
- In Taming, act V, sc. ii, when she is called, Bianca says she is busy and cannot come to her husband, and then orders him to come to her.
- Morocco’s casket (besides a note) contains what he calls “a carrion death.”
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence; And here choose I; joy be the consequence!”
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “You shall not seal to such a bond for me: I’ll rather dwell in my necessity.”
- How much money does Antonio borrow from Shylock?
- Identify the speaker from Taming: “…I burn, I pine, I perish…If I achieve not this young modest girl.”
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me. / I did but tell her she mistook her frets…”
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong, To strive for that which resteth in my choice: I am no breeching scholar in the schools; I’ll not be tied to hours nor ‘pointed times, But learn my lessons as I please myself.
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring: Let his deservings and my love withal Be valued against your wife’s commandment.”
- Whom does Portia leave in charge of Belmont while she is in court in Venice?
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, The penalty and forfeit of my bond.”
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “Draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves; Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man.”
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “And do you tell me of a woman’s tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer’s fire? Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.”
- In Taming, as Petruchio and Kate travel the road BACK TO Padua, whom does Kate address on the road as “[y]oung budding virgin” (Act IV, sc. v)?
- In act 3 of the Merchant of Venice, when Bassanio hears that Antonio is in jeopardy to Shylock, he praises Antonio to Portia as a man of honor unsurpassed. What adjective does he use to describe Antonio’s honor?
- Choose the correct speaker for the quotation from The Merchant of Venice: “My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate Upon the fortune of this present year.”
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow’d livery of the burnish’d sun, To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.”
- As the defeated Shylock prepares to leave the court without so much as his principal, Portia stops him & quotes a statute from the laws of Venice that places him in jeopardy of death. What is this statute?
- When Shylock hears news of Jessica after her elopement, he learns that she has traded a special ring in order to buy a . . .
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “The mathematics and the metaphysics, / Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you; / No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en: / In brief, sir, study what you most effect.”
- The translation of Suppositi, the play upon which the sub-plot of Taming is based, was translated into English by . . .
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath…”
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.”
- Who is the author of the Italian play from 1509 from which the Lucentio/Bianca subplot of Taming was based?
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “Well, while I live I’ll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring.”
- Identify the speaker from Taming: “The more fool you for laying on my duty.”
- Portia prevents Shylock from taking the pound of flesh from Antonio through a certain technicality, namely . . .
- Choose the speaker from Taming: “Call you me daughter? now, I promise you You have show’d a tender fatherly regard, To wish me wed to one half lunatic…”
- Besides forcing the partial forfeiture of his property and a fine, what else does the court order Shylock to do?
- In Act V, what is Antonio’s response to Portia’s news (by note) that three of his ships have arrived safely in port?
- Choose the correct speaker from The Merchant: “But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.”
- On their wedding night, on what virtue does Petruchio preach a sermon to Kate?
- In Taming act 4, who is the Pedant pretending to be?
- In the choice of the three caskets, which casket does Morocco choose?
- What art/subject does Hortensio claim to teach Bianca when he pretends to be a tutor?