The Merchant of Venice Act 5 Quiz and Close Reading Bundle

Help high school students extend reading comprehension and analyze plot developments in Act 5 of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice with this bundle of assessments. Answer keys are included. This bundle offers a plot-based quiz and a close reading analysis worksheet designed to facilitate students’ abilities to do the following:

• Identify what the text says both explicitly and implicitly
• Examine how complex characters think, behave, develop, and interact
• Make sense of literary allusions
• Discern the tone of a given excerpt in context
• Explore cause-and-effect relationships
• Apply knowledge of literary devices including personification
• Examine the effect of Shakespeare’s symbolic imagery
• Cite textual evidence in support of ideas and claims
• Write ideas with clarity and precision