Q.1.
"You have among you killed a sweet and innocent lady. For my lord Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet, and till then, peace be with him." What does Benedick imply by his use of the term "Lackbeard" for Claudio?
Q.2.
"But for my will, my will is your good will / May stand with ours this day to be conjoined / In the state of holy matrimony." What does "will" mean here?
Q.3.
"Now, divine air! Now is his soul ravished. Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?" Benedick contrasts the unlikely material from which musical strings are made (sheep's guts) with which of the following?
Q.4.
In which of the following lines does a play on words remark on deceptive appearances?
Q.5.
"God restore you to health. I humbly give you leave to depart, and if a merry meeting may be wished, God prohibit it." What does Dogberry actually mean to say?
Q.6.
HERO: O, my father, Prove you that any man with me conversed At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight Maintained the change of words with any creature, Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death. How does Hero suggest Leonato "prove" her?
Q.7.
BEATRICE: Against my will, I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK: Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE: I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me. If it had been painful I would not have come. What is the source of humor in these lines?
Q.8.
"Will your grace command me any service to the world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on. I will fetch you a toothpicker now from the furthest inch of Asia." Benedick here indulges in which of the following?
Q.9.
"He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion." What does the messenger mean by comparing Claudio to a lamb?
Q.10.
LEONATO: Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE: Not till God make men of some other mettle than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust? — to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? Which words give the impression that Beatrice does not think very highly of men?