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The correct answer is 'to marry Portia'

Key Points

• Bassanio needed to borrow money in order to woo the wealthy and beautiful Portia, a noblewoman with an estate. To woo such an important woman, Bassanio needed to dress well, prepare gifts for her, travel to her estate, and generally spend money to present himself in the best possible way.
• Hence, from the above line, we can comprehend that Bassanio wants money to marry Portia.

Hence, the correct answer is Option 4.

The correct answer is '2 times'

Key Points

• Portia, disguised as a lawyer, gives a speech about mercy in The Merchant of Venice in which she states that the quality of mercy is twice blessed:
  • She says: It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

Hence, the correct answer is Option 4.

The correct answer is 'Bassanio'

Key Points

• Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to loan Bassanio three thousand ducats for a term of three months. Bassanio assures Shylock that Antonio will guarantee the loan, but Shylock is doubtful because Antonio’s wealth is currently invested in business ventures that may fail.

Hence, the correct answer is Option 3.

The correct answer is option 1) i.e. "Shylock".

Key Points

•  In Act IV, scene i, lines 164–396, of the Shakespearean play "Merchant of Venice", we see the character Shylock being insistent about justice according to the bond signed between himself and Antonio.
• Hence, option 1 is the correct answer. 

 Additional Information

The summary of the play 'Merchant of Venice' is as follows - 

• Antonio, an antisemitic merchant, takes a loan from the Jew Shylock to help his friend to court Portia.
• Antonio can't repay the loan, and without mercy, Shylock demands a pound of his flesh.
• The heiress Portia, now the wife of Antonio's friend, dresses as a lawyer and saves Antonio.

The main characters in the play are - 

• Portia - Portia is a female protagonist of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. A rich, beautiful, intelligent heiress of Belmont, she is bound by the lottery set forth in her father's will, which gives potential suitors the chance to choose among three caskets.
• Antonio - Antonio is the merchant of the title and is the first character we meet in this play. He has invested all his money in cargo that is currently on numerous ships. When his best friend Bassanio asks for a loan of 3000 ducats, he is unable to offer cash, but agrees to act as a bond.
• Bassanio - Bassanio is a fictional character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. He is a spendthrift who wasted all of his money in order to be seen as a respectable man. To regain his fortune, he is determined to marry Portia, a wealthy, intelligent heiress of Belmont.

The correct answer is option 3) i.e. "a Jewish moneylender".

Key Points

• Shylock is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.
• A Venetian Jewish moneylender, Shylock is the play's principal antagonist.
• His defeat and conversion to Christianity form the climax of the story. 

Additional Information The summary of the play 'Merchant of Venice' is as follows - 

• Antonio, an antisemitic merchant, takes a loan from the Jew Shylock to help his friend to court Portia.
• Antonio can't repay the loan, and without mercy, Shylock demands a pound of his flesh.
• The heiress Portia, now the wife of Antonio's friend, dresses as a lawyer and saves Antonio.

The correct answer is 'Tempest'

Key Points

• This sonnet attempts to define love, by telling both what it is and is not.
• In the first quatrain, the speaker says that love ” the marriage of true minds” is perfect and unchanging; it does not “admit impediments,” and it does not change when it find changes in the loved one.
• In the second quatrain, the speaker tells what love is through a metaphor: a guiding star to lost ships (“wand’ring barks”) that is not susceptible to storms (it “looks on tempests and is never shaken”).
• In the third quatrain, the speaker again describes what love is not: it is not susceptible to time. Though beauty fades in time as rosy lips and cheeks come within “his bending sickle’s compass,” love does not change with hours and weeks: instead, it “bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
• In the couplet, the speaker attests to his certainty that love is as he says: if his statements can be proved to be an error, he declares, he must never have written a word, and no man can ever have been in love.
• According to the second quatrain, we can say that the poet compares true love with Tempest.

Hence, the correct answer is option 1.

The correct answer is 'Portia says to Bassanio that Shylock will have a penalty as per justice and nothing else'

Key Points

• The given lines are taken from the play 'The Merchant of Venice Act IV Scene I'
• The lines were like this-
  • SHYLOCK
    I take this offer, then; pay the bond thrice
    And let the Christian go.
  • BASSANIO
    Here is the money.
  • PORTIA
    Soft!
    The Jew shall have all justice; soft! no haste:
    He shall have nothing but the penalty.
• Hence, the correct answer is Option 1.

The correct answer is 'Portia says these to Shylock explaining the contents of the bond'

Key Points

• The given lines are taken from the drama 'The Merchant of Venice' Scene 1 Act IV.
• The given lines are said by Portia to Shylock-
  • The lines were like this-
    • Tarry a little; there is something else.
      This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;
      The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:'
      Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;
      But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
      One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
      Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate
      Unto the state of Venice.
  • The meaning of the lines is- But wait a moment. There’s something else. This contract doesn’t give you any blood at all. The words expressly specify “a pound of flesh.” So take your penalty of a pound of flesh, but if you shed one drop of Christian blood when you cut it, the state of Venice will confiscate your land and property under Venetian law.
• Hence, the correct answer is Option 2.

The correct answer is 'Portia says these words to Shylock'

Key Points

• The given lines are given in the drama 'The Merchant of Venice' Scene 1 Act IV.
• The exact lines were like this-
  • Portia- Shylock, there's thrice thy money offer'd thee.
• Hence, the correct answer is Option 3.

The correct answer is 'Portia while explaining the quality of mercy in the court says these words'

Key Points

• The given lines are taken from the play 'The Merchant Of Venice'
• The lines were like this- 
  • ‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; It becomes.....
• In these lines, the poet says that Portia tries to change the heart of Shylock by an appeal to his sense of mercy. But he is firm on his demand. The poet also says that mercy cannot be forced but it comes in the heart of a man naturally.

Hence, the correct answer is Option 1.