Merchant of Venice Quizzes

Merchant of Venice Quiz 2

1. How does Portia prevent Shylock from killing Antonio?

• She has Venetian guards arrest him
• She informs him that only a Christian may enter into a legal contract with another Christian, and hence his contract is void
• She rips up the contract and denies that it ever existed
• She tells him to take his pound of flesh, but that all his land and goods will be forfeit if he sheds a single drop of blood

2. Bassanio gives his ring to the young lawyer at whose request?

• Graziano's
• Balthasar's
• Portia's
• Antonio's

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