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ACT III, CELL 2BiancaWhy, gentleman, you do me double wrong,To strive for that which resteth in my choice:I am no breeching scholar in the schools;I’ll not be tied to hours nor ‘pointed times,But learn my lessons as I please myself.And, to cut off all strife, here sit we down:Take you your instruments, play you the whiles;His lecture will be done ere you have tuned.Bianca tells the men that she likes her lessons when she wants themand not at a structured time.Does Bianca want a structured lesson with appointed times foreverything?In the quote above the word strife most closely means:a) A struggle, fight, or quarrel.b) A game, play time, or imagination.c) A joke, laugh, or riddle.d) A death, murder, or attack.Consider the following sentence from the text and decide which of thechoices below is the best contemporary paraphrase:[Take you your instruments, play you the whiles;His lecture will be done ere you return.]a) Go away because his lecture is more interesting.b) Go away because I don’t like you.c) His lectures is boring, go away with me.d) By the time you come back from tuning your instrument, his lecturewill be done.
Cell 3‘Hic ibat,’ as I told you before, ‘Simois,’ I amLucentio, ‘hic est,’ son unto Vincentio of Pisa‘Sigeia tellus,’ disguised thus to get your love;‘Hic steterat,’ and that Lucentio that comesa-wooing, ‘Priami,’ is my man Tranio, ‘regia,’bearing my port, ‘celsa senis,’ that we mightbeguile the old pantaloon.Lucentio tells Bianca that he is not really a tutor, but a rich man fromPisa.What does Lucentio tell Bianca?In the quote above the word pantaloon most closely means?a) A kind of shifty mouse-like creatureb) The old man of the housec) A kind of pants.d) A kind of plant that killsDo you think Lucentio should have told Bianca the truth about who heis? Why or why not?Consider the following sentence from the text and decide which of thechoices below is the best contemporary paraphrase:[Spit in the hole, man, and tune again.]a) Mess up your instrument and go away to tune it again.b) Spit shine your instrument so it will be tuned.c) It sounds like spit, tune it again.d) Your tuning makes me so mad I could spit.
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