Question Bank of As You Like It

2. What have they gone through just now?
Ans: They have gone through a marriage ceremony just now.
3. Who conducts it? How does that person rebuke Rosalind?
Ans: Celia conducts it.
She blames Rosalind for giving an unflattering picture of her womanhood. She should have been
reserved and shown her true colours.
4. What does Rosalind say in the last line of the extract?
Ans: In the last line of the extract, she said that she would shed tears continuously like Diana in the
fountain for no reason, when Orlando was disposed to be merry, and when he was inclined to be asleep,
she would laugh like a hyena.
5. What does she go on to say about certain months of the year?
Ans: Rosalind comments that men are kind and sweet as April when they woo the girls, but become cold
and harsh like December once they are married. Girls are also charming as May before they are married,
but the aspect changes when they are wives.
Q3. Read the extract and answer the following questions.
Rosalind: No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time
there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love‐cause.
1. What in love is a serious offence? Who is a better lover and why?
Ans: The lover’s breaking of an hour’s promise in love is a serious offence. He that will divide a minute
into thousand parts and he that will break the thousandth part of a minute in keeping an appointment in
love cannot be in true love.
A snail would have been a better lover as it granted security in love because it carried on his head the
house in which he lived. Moreover he owned a fortune. Orlando could not be a true lover because he
had come late and empty handed.
2. What does Rosalind mean by die by attorney?
Ans: An attorney is an agent who is appointed to act for another. When Orlando says that he will die in
his own person, Rosalind tells him to get someone else to die for him just as she has not refused him in
his own person but through Ganymede.
3. What reference has been given about Troilus and Cressida?
Ans: Troilus was the son of Priam, King of Troy. He fell in love with Cressida, an unfaithful lover. He was
killed in the battle by Achilles. Rosalind invents the club in order to defame the patterns of lovers died,
but not for love. Troilus is regarded as the epitome of constant lover by medieval writers but Rosalind
wants to prove that he had sufficient cause to die for Cressida, as a disappointed lover, but he was killed
in the battle, that too by a club.
4. How does she twist the famous love story of Hero and Leander?
Ans: According to Greek mythology, Leander swam across the Hellespont every night to visit Hero whom
he loved. One day he lost his way and drowned as the light on the tower lit by Hero was put out due to
the storm. When Hero saw his body, she threw himself into the sea and was killed. Rosalind disagreed
and thought that Leander would have lived to old age even if Hero had become a nun. She says that
what brought about Leander’s death was not love but crams which seized him while bathing in
Hellespont on a warm summer night.