CONTEXT QUESTIONS
Readthe extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
Salanio Now, what news on the Rialto ?
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Salarino Why, yet it lives there unchecked, that
Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wrecked on the
narrow seas;- the Goodwins, I think they call the place,
a very dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of
many a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip
Report be an honest woman of her word.
discussed the Rialto?
)What is the 'Rialto'? What type of news are on
What is its significance in the play?
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(i) Give the meaning of. (a) "yet it lives
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Salarino give to Salanio in the
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news affect the course of the play?
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2. Salanio Shylock, for his own part, knew
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was fledged; and then it is the complexion of them
leave the dam.
Shylock She is damned for it.
Salarino That's certain, if the devil may be her juage
Shylock My own flesh and blood to rebel! t h e e x t r a "
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Where has the bird flown?
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If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his
humility? Revenge! If a Christian wrong a Jew, what
christian example? Why,
should his sufferance be by
teach me l will execute, and it
revenge! The villainy you
instruction.
shall hard but I will better the
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justify in this extract his taking revenge on
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ntonio? Do you agree with Shylock? Why?
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unreasonable in his treatment o of.
Shylock thinks that Antonio
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arguments in
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Salarino We have been up and down to seek him.
Salanio Here comes another of the tribe: a third
Jew.
cannot be matched, unless the devil himself turn
Exeunt Salanio, Salarino and Servant
Enter Tubal
How now, Tubal! what news from Genoa?
Shylock
Hast thou found my daughter?
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Who is referred to as "another of the tribe?" What does Salanio think of
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discrimination hinted in the speech
him? How does the theme of racial
Elizabethan belief about race as presented
of Salanio? Comment on the
in the play.
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Tubal But Antonio is certainly undone.
Shylock Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal,
fee me an officer; bespeak him a fortnight before. I will
have the heart of him, if he forfeit; for, were he out
of
Venice, I can make what merchandise I will. Go, Tubal,
good Tubal; at our
and meet me at our synagogue; go,
Synagogue, Tubal.
makes Tubal say that
() Who is Tubal? How is he related to Shylock? Why
Antonio is undone?
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What was Shylock's reaction on hearing
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(v) Why was Shylock annoyed
with a torquoino?
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