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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shylock warn the jailer not to do?
(a) Be sympathetic towards Antonio.
(b) Divulge information to Antonio.
(c) Forget who he is working for.
(d) Be a witness for Antonio's case.

2. What does Lorenzo scold Launcelot for while Portia is away from her house?
(a) Eating all the food.
(b) Scaring Jessica with his talk of hell-fire.
(c) Getting a Moorish servant pregnant.
(d) Trying to smuggle some of Portia's goblets in his baggage.

3. Who does Shylock petition for help when he sees that his daughter is gone?
(a) The king.
(b) The prince.
(c) The governor.
(d) The duke.

4. What does the young lawyer from Padua warn Shylock he must not take in addition to his pound of flesh?
(a) One ounce over a pound.
(b) Antonio's life.
(c) Blood.
(d) Fat.

5. What does Portia offer to give to satisfy Antonio's debt to Shylock?
(a) 2 times the debt.
(b) A title of nobility and some land.
(c) 20 times the debt.
(d) A casket ful of jewels.

6. Why is Shylock not able to search where he wants to for his missing daughter?
(a) Bassanio's ship has sailed.
(b) Lorenzo's house is empty.
(c) Antonio refuses to let Shylock enter his house.
(d) The masquerade is over.

7. What does Shylock say will happen to Jessica due to her betrayal?
(a) She is disowned.
(b) She will be sent to hell.
(c) She will be stripped of her title and her inheritance.
(d) She will be dishonored by the synogogue.

8. Who does Antonio plead for mercy from?
(a) The duke.
(b) The jailer.
(c) Tubal.
(d) Shylock.

9. What does Nerissa plan to get from her husband before returning home with Portia?
(a) The ring she gave him.
(b) A lock of hair.
(c) The deed to Shylock's house.
(d) The pendant around his neck.

10. What does Portia make Lorenzo and Jessica promise when she returns from Venice?
(a) Not tell Bassanio that she ever left.
(b) Ask Bassanio where his ring is.
(c) Tell Bassanio that she is still at the monastery.
(d) Refuse to talk to Bassanio when he arrives.

11. How much money did Jessica spend in one night?
(a) 800 ducats.
(b) 8 ducats.
(c) 8000 ducats.
(d) 80 ducats.

12. What is found inside the casket chosen by the second suitor to Portia while Bassanio is sailing there?
(a) A picture of Portia.
(b) A skull and a poem.
(c) A sack of jewels.
(d) A picture of a fool and a poem.

13. What does Portia request while Bassanio is choosing his casket?
(a) That music be played.
(b) That he wait an hour.
(c) That he let her read the inscriptions to him.
(d) That lunch be served.

14. Where does Antonio say he last saw Lorenzo?
(a) In Bassanio's ship.
(b) In the marketplace.
(c) At the masquerade.
(d) On a gondola.

15. What does Portia give Bassanio as a token of her love?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A ring.
(c) A crown.
(d) A book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Launcelot tell Jessica he is worried about her for?

2. Who does Shylock say has never had sympathy for him?

3. What does Shylock accuse Solanio and Salarino of?

4. Who does Nerissa marry?

5. Who takes the disguised Nerissa to Shylock's house to collect his deed?

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