High School: 9th and 10th Grade - Literature - Much Ado About Nothing - Extract 1 Solution

Q.1.

What is the immediate context for this passage?

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Hero and Ursula have sent Margaret to inform Beatrice that they are gossiping about her in the orchard
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Leonato has just agreed to marry his daughter Hero to Claudio
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Benedick has just written a sonnet to Beatrice
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Margaret has just impersonated Hero in her chamber with Borachio

Q.2.

What immediately follows this passage?

Q.3.

Which of the following is an example of foreshadowing in this passage?

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"If I should speak / She would mock me into air, O, she would laugh me / Out of myself"
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"Therefore let Benedick, like covered fire, / Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly"
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"And truly, I’ll devise some honest slanders / To stain my cousin with. One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking"
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"Signor Benedick, / For shape, for bearing, argument, and valor / Goes foremost in report through Italy"

Q.4.

Hero says she has never met a man that Beatrice does not "spell backwards". What does she mean by this?

Q.5.

What does Hero identify to be as bad as death caused by tickling?

Q.6.

Hero says, in her aside, that Cupid kills some "with arrows, some with traps". What does she mean by this?

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People can find themselves unexpectedly paired together, even if they have never fallen passionately in love
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People who do not fall passionately in love would be better off not getting married
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People who do not fall passionately in love have been able successfully to avoid Cupid
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Beatrice and Benedick have absolute freedom to make whatever choices they desire

Q.7.

Who is compared to a bird in this passage?

Q.8.

Which of the following lines expresses the idea that reputation is created by deeds?

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"Signor Benedick, / For shape, for bearing, argument, and valor / Goes foremost in report through Italy"
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"Stand I condemned for pride and scorn so much?"
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"He is the only man of Italy, / Always excepted my dear Claudio"
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"His excellence did earn it ere he had it"

Q.9.

Ursula appeals to which of Beatrice's characteristics?

Q.10.

Beatrice refers to "fire" in her ears. What is the significance of this metaphor?

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Gossip is dangerous, like fire
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She feels some shame at the impression of herself which her dear friends hold
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Beatrice's ears are "burning" because other people are talking about her
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All of the above