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

Extract  No. 1

 Lorenzo

Nay, we will slink away in supper-time, 

Disguise us at my lodging, and return 

All in an hour.

 
Gratiano
We have not made good preparation.

 
Salarino
We have not spoke us yet of torch-bearers.

Salanio
’Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order’d, 

And better in my mind, not undertook.

 
Lorenzo
’Tis now but four o’clock: we have two hours 

To furnish us.

(i) Why do Lorenzo and his friends plan to disguise themselves at dinner time? How well are they prepared for the disguise?

Ans:- Lorenzo and his friends in this scene are planning to disguise themselves because they were going to Shylock’s house and take Jessica away in secrecy. They had organized a masquerade for Bassanio’s dinner party. During Elizabethan times the masque was an amateur dramatic practice in which the participants wore fancy costumes and masks and took part in a torch procession, playing musical instruments.
      No, they were not properly prepared for the disguise. The time was running out and they had yet to speak to the torchbearers.

(ii) Who is supposed to be the torch-bearer? What is the actual purpose of having a torch-bearer in the scene?

Ans:- Jessica is going to disguise herself as a boy and be a torchbearer. The actual purpose of this is that this will expedite and facilitate the elopement of Jessica with Lorenzo.

(iii) Whose letter does Launcelot bring? Why is it an important confidential letter? How does Lorenzo guess whose letter it is?

Ans:- Launcelot delivers Jessica’s letter to Lorenzo. It is confidential as it contained the secret plan of elopement. It was a risky undertaking because she is a Jew and Lorenzo is a Christian and her father would have never accepted this. Lorenzo recognized the handwriting as it was written by the lovely, fair, beautiful, and familiar hand of Jessica.

(iv) Who is giving the dinner party? Whom does Launcelot invite for dinner? 

Ans:- Bassanio is hosting the dinner party. Launcelot invites Shylock to the dinner party.

(v) Describe briefly how the dinner party facilitates the elopement of Jessica with Lorenzo.

Ans:- It is because of the dinner party to which Shylock is invited. Jessica gets a chance to escape from her house. She also gets a chance to rob her father’s wealth and riches and quietly
slip out of the house in Shylock’s absence.

Extract  No. 2

 Lorenzo

 
I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed

 How I shall take her from her father’s house; 

What gold and jewels she is furnish’d with; 

What page’s suit she hath in readiness.
If e’er the Jew her father come to heaven, 

It will be for his gentle daughter’s sake:

 And never dare misfortune cross her foot, 

Unless she do it under this excuse,
That she is issue to a faithless Jew.
Come, go with me: peruse this as thou goest. 

Fair Jessica shall be my torch-bearer.

(i) What information has Jessica given to Lorenzo regarding her elopement?

Ans:- Jessica informs Lorenzo about the arrangements she had made to elope with him. She will leave her father’s house with money and jewelry, disguised in the uniform for page-boy.

(ii) According to Lorenzo, how could the Jew go to heaven? How can you conclude that Lorenzo has a high opinion of Jessica?

Ans:-. According to Lorenzo, the Jew, Shylock could go to heaven only because of his sweet and gentle daughter. We can conclude that Lorenzo has a high opinion of Jessica since he feels that if at all Shylcok ever goes to heaven it will be because of her. He prays that no misfortune ever comes to her except for being Shylock’s daughter.

(iii) What does Lorenzo wish for Jessica? According to him, how could misfortune come to Jessica?

Ans:- Lorenzo wishes that no misfortune ever happens to Jessica, for being the daughter of a non-believing Jew. She had no stain of sin in her unless her birth is regarded as a sin.

(iv) Give an example of racial discrimination hinted at in the extract.

Ans:- Reference to Shylock as a ‘Faithless Jew’ is an example of racial discrimination hinted at in the extract. Christians believe that Faithless Jews won’t go to heaven.

(v) Describe (a) the atmosphere of activity and (b) pre-occupation prevailing in this short scene.

 Ans:- In this short scene, Lorenzo and his friends prepare for the masquerade for Bassanio’s party.
    Launcelot hands over Jessica’s letter to Lorenzo and the arrangements of elopement are the major development in the plot. Shylock is invited to the party and this further builds an atmosphere of activity.