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How well do you know Beatrice and Benedick?
Much Ado About Nothing - Extract 2
This GCSE English Literature quiz is the second of two extract questions for William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. It takes place in Act Four, Scene One, after the dramatic scenes on the morning of Hero’s wedding. In this passage, Benedick and Beatrice leave their teasing and mockery behind for a more intimate and sincere conversation. They do not share the same aims and understanding of the situation, however. One interesting detail to note is the difference in the way each character addresses the other. Benedick repeatedly uses an intimate “thou”, reserved for those who are very close, while Beatrice maintains a formal “you” in her speech, refusing the closeness sought by Benedick.
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BENEDICK: Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?
BEATRICE: Yea, and I will weep a while longer.
BENEDICK: I will not desire that.
BEATRICE: You have no reason, I do it freely.
BENEDICK: Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.
BEATRICE: Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her!
BENEDICK: Is there any way to show such friendship?
BEATRICE: A very even way, but no such friend.
BENEDICK: May a man do it?
BEATRICE: It is a man’s office, but not yours.
BENEDICK: I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?
BEATRICE: As strange as the thing I know not. It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you, but believe me not, and yet I lie not. I confess nothing nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.
BENEDICK: By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.
BEATRICE: Do not swear and eat it.
BENEDICK: I will swear by it that you love me, and I will make him eat it that says I love not you.
BEATRICE: Will you not eat your word?
BENEDICK: With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest I love thee.
BEATRICE: Why then, God forgive me.
BENEDICK: What offence, sweet Beatrice?
BEATRICE: You have stayed me in a happy hour. I was about to protest I loved you.
BENEDICK: And do it with all thy heart.
BEATRICE: I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
BENEDICK: Come, bid me do anything for thee.
BEATRICE: Kill Claudio.
BENEDICK: Ha! Not for the wide world.
BEATRICE: You kill me to deny it. Farewell.
BENEDICK: Tarry, sweet Beatrice.
BEATRICE: I am gone though I am here. There is no love in you. - Nay, I pray you, let me go.
BENEDICK: Beatrice.
BEATRICE: In faith, I will go.
BENEDICK: We’ll be friends first.
BEATRICE: You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.
BENEDICK: Is Claudio thine enemy?
BEATRICE: Is [he] not approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour - O God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market place.
BENEDICK: Hear me, Beatrice.
BEATRICE: Talk with a man out at a window - a proper saying.
BENEDICK: Nay, but Beatrice.
BEATRICE: Sweet Hero, she is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.
BENEDICK: Beat -
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (W. W. Norton, 2008)
BENEDICK: Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?
BEATRICE: Yea, and I will weep a while longer.
BENEDICK: I will not desire that.
BEATRICE: You have no reason, I do it freely.
BENEDICK: Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.
BEATRICE: Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her!
BENEDICK: Is there any way to show such friendship?
BEATRICE: A very even way, but no such friend.
BENEDICK: May a man do it?
BEATRICE: It is a man’s office, but not yours.
BENEDICK: I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?
BEATRICE: As strange as the thing I know not. It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you, but believe me not, and yet I lie not. I confess nothing nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.
BENEDICK: By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.
BEATRICE: Do not swear and eat it.
BENEDICK: I will swear by it that you love me, and I will make him eat it that says I love not you.
BEATRICE: Will you not eat your word?
BENEDICK: With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest I love thee.
BEATRICE: Why then, God forgive me.
BENEDICK: What offence, sweet Beatrice?
BEATRICE: You have stayed me in a happy hour. I was about to protest I loved you.
BENEDICK: And do it with all thy heart.
BEATRICE: I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
BENEDICK: Come, bid me do anything for thee.
BEATRICE: Kill Claudio.
BENEDICK: Ha! Not for the wide world.
BEATRICE: You kill me to deny it. Farewell.
BENEDICK: Tarry, sweet Beatrice.
BEATRICE: I am gone though I am here. There is no love in you. - Nay, I pray you, let me go.
BENEDICK: Beatrice.
BEATRICE: In faith, I will go.
BENEDICK: We’ll be friends first.
BEATRICE: You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.
BENEDICK: Is Claudio thine enemy?
BEATRICE: Is [he] not approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour - O God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market place.
BENEDICK: Hear me, Beatrice.
BEATRICE: Talk with a man out at a window - a proper saying.
BENEDICK: Nay, but Beatrice.
BEATRICE: Sweet Hero, she is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.
BENEDICK: Beat -
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (W. W. Norton, 2008)
1 .
What is the immediate context for this passage?
Leonato, the Friar, Beatrice and Benedick have agreed to pretend that Hero is dead
Don John has just persuaded Don Pedro and Claudio to spy at Hero's window
Dogberry has brought Borachio and Conrad to Leonato to confess
Claudio and Don Pedro have just persuaded Benedick that Beatrice is in love with him
This scene follows shortly after Claudio's public shaming of Hero; Hero's friends and family have agreed to buy some time with a ruse by pretending that Hero has died, rather than merely fainting
2 .
What immediately follows this passage?
Claudio agrees to marry a niece of Antonio's
Leonato challenges Claudio to a duel
Benedick agrees to challenge Claudio for Hero's honour
Leonato holds a second feast
After ascertaining that Beatrice truly believes that Claudio has acted shamefully towards Hero, he agrees to do as she asks
3 .
What is meant by Benedick's line, "Beat—"?
He loses his train of thought
Beatrice interrupts him
The private conversation between Beatrice and Benedick is interrupted by Hero regaining consciousness
The private conversation between Beatrice and Benedick is suddenly interrupted by the appearance of Don John
Benedick is repeatedly interrupted as he attempts to mollify Beatrice
4 .
"I will swear by it that you love me, and I will make him eat it that says I love not you." Benedick swears by his sword that he loves Beatrice. What does he mean by "I will make him eat it"?
He will invite anyone who denies his love for Beatrice to a feast where he will prove the doubter wrong
He will argue endlessly with anyone who denies his love for Beatrice
He will make anyone who denies his love for Beatrice metaphorically eat his words
He will use his sword to fight anyone who denies his love for Beatrice
Benedick is prepared to use his sword to fight with anyone who doubts his love for Beatrice. To "eat" his sword literally means to be stabbed
5 .
Referring to the answer to the previous question, how does Beatrice overturn Benedick's boastful promise?
She undermines the useless boast and asks him for an act which would prove his love to her
She redirects attention to Hero's situation
She asks him to kill Claudio
All of the above
Fighting as a response to someone doubting his love is rather pointless in Beatrice's eyes. More valuable to her would be a defence of her cousin's honour, so she asks Benedick to kill Claudio
6 .
"O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour - O God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market place." Which aspect of Claudio's refusal to marry Hero does Beatrice most condemn in these lines?
That Claudio refused to listen to Hero
That Claudio shamed her in public
That Claudio, a man, could ill treat Hero, a woman
That Leonato did not defend his own daughter
The public nature of Hero's disgrace makes sense of Beatrice's threat to eat Claudio's heart in the market place (as public an environment as possible)
7 .
Which of the following refers to fighting a duel for Hero's honour?
"It is a man’s office"
"What offence, sweet Beatrice?"
"And do it with all thy heart"
"Talk with a man out at a window"
Beatrice means that fighting such a duel can only be a man's job; however good she is at duelling with words, she cannot exact vengeance on Claudio in a socially respectable manner
8 .
Which of the following lines does NOT imply that Benedick is somehow physically restraining Beatrice?
"Nay, I pray you, let me go"
"In faith, I will go"
"We’ll be friends first"
"You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy"
Beatrice's request to Benedick to let her go is reinforced by her statement of determination to go. Benedick's response implies that he is reluctant to allow her to leave on such an unpleasant note. The restraint might be as simple as his hand on her arm, but it is still present
9 .
"Will you not eat your word?" Beatrice's question aligns two different weapons capable of violence. What are these?
Love and lies
Darkness and lies
Words and swords
Love and poison
Benedick has promised to make another man "eat" his sword. Beatrice questions whether he will have to eat his "word", or his promise. This play on words also draws upon the themes of the play, especially those concerning the dangerous power of words as weapons
10 .
Which of the following lines contrast outer appearances with inner reality?
"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest"
"Come, bid me do anything for thee"
"I am gone though I am here"
"Is Claudio thine enemy?"
Beatrice makes a distinction between her self and her physical presence
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