The Merchant of Venice Act III – A Quiz

1. As Act III opens, who are discussing the fate of 8. As scene ii opens, what does Portia ask of Bassanio?
Antonio’s ships? A) don’t hazard a guess at the caskets
A) Salerio & Solanio B) not to select either the gold or silver casket
B) Bassanio & Antonio C) to wait a few days before he chooses a casket
C) Shylock & Antonio D) just to leave Belmont
D) Gratiano & Bassanio
9. Which ancient hero does Portia compare Bassanio
2. Of what does Shylock accuse Salerio in scene 1? to?
A) providing Antonio a place to hideout A) Odysseus
B) trying to undo the bond B) Ajax
C) knowing Jessica was leaving C) Achilles
D) knowing where Jessica is hiding D) Hercules

3. What does Shylock say a man’s flesh is good for? 10. Who/what is Bassanio referring to in the following
A) selling on the rialto lines?
B) making a stew
C) feeding dogs “thou pale and common drudge/’tween man and
D) baiting fish man”

A) Shylock
4. Why does Shylock want to “execute” the bond? B) the gold casket
A) to feed his revenge C) the lead casket
B) to get his money back D) Portia
C) to get his daughter back
D) he does not say
11. What does Portia give Bassanio that he must swear
never to part with?
5. Who brings Shylock news from Genoa about A) the lead casket
Jessica? B) a lock of her golden hair
A) Launcelot C) a ring
B) Abram D) her love
C) Tubal
D) Salerio
12. What surprise news does Gratiano give Bassanio?
A) that Antonio is dead
6. What is the news about Jessica? B) that Antonio’s ships have all been destroyed
A) she is trying to get away from Lorenzo C) that he has fallen in love with Nerissa
B) she is running around with Christians D) that Shylock is on the hunt for Antonio
C) she is spending Shylock’s money wildly
D) no one has seen her
13. Who arrives at Belmont late to the party, but with
news?
7. Who is Leah? A) Lorenzo and Jessica
A) Shylock’s wife B) Solanio
B) Lorenzo’s mother C) Shylock
C) Jessica’s hand maiden D) Antonio
D) Old Gobbo’s wife
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20. What is Portia’s response to Nerissa when she asks

of Bassanio and Gratiano “shall they see us?”
14. How much money does Portia tell Bassanio to pay to
A) no, we will stay hidden
“deface the bond”?
B) yes, but we’ll be dressed like men
A) 6,000 ducats
C) yes, and we will provide them inspiration
B) 12,000 ducats
D) no, but they will hear our voices
C) 36,000 ducats
D) 72,000 ducats
21. At the beginning of Act III scene v, who tells Jessica
that he thinks that, even though she marries a
15. In Act III scene iii, how does Shylock respond to
Christian, she is still damned?
Antonio?
A) Launcelot
A) He acts with compassion.
B) Lorenzo
B) He gives Antonio an opportunity to state his
C) Nerissa
case.
D) Gratiano
C) He refuses to let Antonio speak.
D) He spits on the Christian.
22. What changes about Lorenzo and Jessica’s language
once Launcelot exits the stage?
16. How does Antonio respond to Shylock in this scene?
A) the speak in blank verse
A) He angrily berates Shylock.
B) they speak in the form of questions
B) He asks for more time to pay off the loan..
C) they raise their voices toward each other
C) He spits on Shylock.
D) they speak in prose
D) He accepts that the law is the law.

17. In Act III, scene iv, to whom does Portia leave in

charge of her house while she is gone?
A) Bassanio
B) Nerissa
C) Launcelot
D) Lorenzo

18. Where does Portia tell everyone that she is going?

A) to Padua
B) to a monastery
C) to her room
D) to Venice

19. Where is she really going?

A) to Venice to see Bassanio
B) to see her cousin in Padua
C) to a monastery
D) to Nerissa’s house
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Merchant Act III

Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: A PTS: 1
2. ANS: C PTS: 1
3. ANS: D PTS: 1
4. ANS: A PTS: 1
5. ANS: C PTS: 1
6. ANS: C PTS: 1
7. ANS: A PTS: 1
8. ANS: C PTS: 1
9. ANS: D PTS: 1
10. ANS: C PTS: 1
11. ANS: C PTS: 1
12. ANS: C PTS: 1
13. ANS: A PTS: 1
14. ANS: C PTS: 1
15. ANS: C PTS: 1
16. ANS: D PTS: 1
17. ANS: D PTS: 1
18. ANS: B PTS: 1
19. ANS: B PTS: 1
20. ANS: B PTS: 1
21. ANS: A PTS: 1
22. ANS: A PTS: 1