Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice
Read the extract below and answer the question
Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad
Because you are not merry; and 'twere as easyfor you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry
Because you are not sad.
(Act 1 sc 1)
The speaker is

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice
Read the extract below and answer the question
Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad
Because you are not merry; and 'twere as easyfor you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry
Because you are not sad.
(Act 1 sc 1)
The person addressed is

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice
Read the extract below and answer the question
Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad
Because you are not merry; and 'twere as easyfor you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry
Because you are not sad.
(Act 1 sc 1)
The speaker is addressing the addressee's

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice
Read the extract below and answer the question
Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad
Because you are not merry; and 'twere as easyfor you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry
Because you are not sad.
(Act 1 sc 1)
The underlined expression illustrates

Read the extract below and answer the question
I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so
Our house is hell, and thou a merry devil
Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness
But fare thee well: there is a ducat for thee
(Act 11, sc lll)
The speaker is