Question

Q1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

But lest you should understand me well, ----
And yet a maiden hath no tongue, but thought, ----
I would detain you here some month or two
Before you venture for me. I could teach you
How to choose right, but then I can for sworn;
So will I never be: so may you miss me;
But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,
That I had been forsworn.

What does Portia pray in the beginning of the scene? [3]
Why should she never teach him how to choose? [3]
Explain : 'But lest you should not understand me well'. [3]
How is it determined that a suitor has chosen the right casket? [3]
Give an example from the play to show that Portia loves Bassanio​

Answer 1

1. portia prays that the person he likes among all the suitors i.e Bassanio to choose the correct casket
2. she should never tell what to choose because it is the will of her death father and she need to obey them
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4. when he opens the particular casket he finds the portrait of protia and there by knows he has choosen the right casket
5. she asks him to wait and think twice so that he could choose the right casket and spend sometime with her.

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