Question Bank of As You Like It

And therefore put I on the countenance
Of stern commandment.
1. Where is Orlando? Whom is he speaking to? Who else is present there?
Ans: Orlando is in the Forest of Arden where the Duke and the lords are ready to have their meal. He is
speaking to Duke Senior. Jaques and Amiens are present there.
2. In what manner had Orlando spoken to the person earlier in the scene?
Ans: Orlando had spoken in an unkind and commanding manner to the Duke. He said that the sharp thorns
of necessity had deprived him of the usual courtesy.
3. Which questions did Orlando ask the Duke starting with if? What made Orlando ask those questions?
Ans: Orlando asked for help from the Duke. He asksed a few conditional questions to the Duke like if he had
ever known prosperous days, if he had ever lived within the sound of church bells, if he had ever enjoyed
the hospitality of a good man, if he had ever shed tears of compassion or if he had known what is to pity or
to be pitied.
Orlando had promised Adam to bring him food so he asks the Duke to give him some food.
4. How did the Duke answer Orlando?
Ans: The Duke welcomed Orlando to have dinner with them. He told Orlando that they had seen more
fruitful days, had been summoned to church by the sacred chime of the church bell, had enjoyed the
hospitality of worthy men, and had shed tears of holy pity. Because of his noble manners, Orlando was
invited to have dinner.
5. Why could Orlando not accept the Duke’s invitation immediately?
Ans: Orlando asked the Duke to hold his dinner for a while because he had to bring a poor old man dying
of hunger who had trudged many long miles in weariness and pain out of pure affection for him.
Orlando would not eat unless he had fed the poor old man.
Q4. Read the extract and answer the following questions.
And then the whining school‐boy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
1. What are first five lines of the extract?
Ans: All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts
His acts being seven ages…
2. Explain the first two stages of a man’s life?
Ans: The first stage is that of an infant, whimpering and puking either in its mother’s or nurse’s arms. It
needs care and attention. The second stage is that of a childhood when the bright eyed boy goes to
school with his bag unwillingly.
3. In which stage is the lover? How does a lover behave?