Question

Question 3.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Nerissa: Your father was ever virtuous: and holy men
at their death have good inspirations:
therefore, the lottery, that he hath devised
in these three chests of gold, silver and
lead, -whereof who chooses his meaning
chooses you, - will, no doubt, never
be chosen by any rightly but one who shall rightly love.

(i) What are the terms of the lottery referred to in the above extract?
Who devised it?
[3]
(ii) How do you know that Portia was not happy with this lottery? [3]
(iii) Name any six suitors who came to woo Portia. [3]
(iv) What does Nerissa say to comfort Portia?
What is Nerissa’s opinion of Portia’s father?
[3]
(v) Which casket does the Prince of Morocco choose?
What leads him to make this choice?

Answer 1

Answer:

2. May that which guides men like a good charioteer

who controls fleet-footed horses with the reins,

that which abides in the heart, most swift and active,

may that my mind resolve on what is good.

Questions

1

i) The poem from which these lines have been taken is :

ii) The one word used for a long narrow band usually of leather by which a horse is controlled"

1

in the extract is :

2

iii) In what sense is the word "Mind” used in this

poem :

what is the answer​

Explanation:

Question 3.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Nerissa: Your father was ever virtuous: and holy men

at their death have good inspirations:

therefore, the lottery, that he hath devised

in these three chests of gold, silver and

lead, -whereof who chooses his meaning

chooses you, - will, no doubt, never

be chosen by any rightly but one who shall rightly love.

(i) What are the terms of the lottery referred to in the above extract?

Who devised it?

[3]

(ii) How do you know that Portia was not happy with this lottery? [3]

(iii) Name any six suitors who came to woo Portia. [3]

(iv) What does Nerissa say to comfort Portia?

What is Nerissa’s opinion of Portia’s father?

[3]

(v) Which casket does the Prince of Morocco choose?

What leads him to make this c