READING GUIDE As You Like It
READ THROUGH PAGES 160-165 IN THE TEXT BEFORE YOU
START READING THE PLAY ITSELF
DO TYPE YOUR ANSWERS AND I AM HAPPY TO HAVE THEM
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Due Date: They are expected by the end of the holidays OR If
there is a very good reason that you cannot do that then by or
before Week One, Term One, Thursday 2010
Act 1 Scene 1
1. Describe Orlando’s mood in his first speech and explain why he is feeling this
way.
2. line 57-59 What are the choices Orlando suggests to Oliver?
Act 1, scene 2
3. Describe in full HOW the two girls feel about each other and explain why. (10
lines)
4. lines 73 ff (ff means and the lines following) What is Monsieur Le Beau’s
news?
5. line 135 ff What is Celia’s advice to Orlando?
6. Who wins the fight?
7. line 209-210 What does Orlando think about Rosalind?
Act 1, scene 3
8. line 1 ff Why is Rosalind so quiet?
9. lines 35- 48 Why does Duke Frederick banish Rosalind and what does this
mean to Rosalind?
10. What three things does Celia decide to do and why?
Act 2, scene 1
11. (beginning of Act 1)Describe Duke Senior’s attitude to the forest of Arden. (in
8-10 lines)
12. Why does Jaques “grieve” (line 26) and “moralise” (line 44)
Act 2, scene 3
13. Adam warns Orlando against whom? Lines 16 ff
14. line 56 ff What do Adam and Orlando decide to do?
Act 2, scene 4
15. Who tells Rosalind about a property for sale, what kind if property is it and
what does Rosalind decide to do? Lines 71-93
Act 2, scene 7
16. Line 12 ff Who has Jaques met in the forest and what does Jaques think of this
fool? (in detail) 6-7 lines
17. When Orlando arrives, what in hi initial attitude to the Duke ( line 88- 1010
and then, how does Orlando change?
18. Jaques’ speech line 139 is very famous Read through it carefully and explain it
in your own words (about 15 lines)
19. What does Duke Senior tell Orlando to do with Adam? line 166
20. Explain in your own words what Duke Senior says to Orlando in the last 10
lines of this act.
Act 3, scene 2
21. What has Orlando been spending his time doing, and how does he feel about
it?
Act 3, scene 3
22. line 57 ff but(you need to read the page above to fully understand it) How
does Touchstone justify his opinion regarding Corin’s job?
23. Celia has taken the name Aliena. Comment on this choice of name with regard
to belonging and not belonging.
24. lines 184-188 How is Rosalind feeling about Orlando, especially now she
knows he wrote the verses?
25. lines 311 ff What does Rosalind say to try to show Orlando that he cannot be
in love?
26. Silvius is in love with Phebe, but Phebe falls in love with whom? Why is this
dramatically amusing?
Act 4, scene 1
27. line 98 What does Rosalind tell Celia to do for her and Orlando? Does Celia
do it?
28. line 165 What are Rosalind’s true feelings re Orlando? And what metaphor
does she use to demonstrate her love?
Act 4, scene 3
29. line 42 What is the main point of Phebe’s letter to Rosalind? And did Phebe
write it?
30. line 70 What place is Oliver looking for and who does this place belong to?
31. line 93ff Read this speech of Oliver’s and explain in your own words what
has happened with Oliver and Orlando in the forest. (10-12 lines)
32. line 52 Why has Ganymede fainted?
Act 5, scene 2
33. With whom has Oliver fallen in love?
34. line 91 ff Explain how Rosalind can make good her statements regarding
everybody’s marrying
Act 5, scene 4
35. line 1 Who is the “boy” Duke Senior refers to?
36. line 36 Who is Jaques referring to, as beasts?
37. line 93 Who is Hymen (read page 152) and what is his/her function (task)?
38. line 138 What has Duke Frederick done on hearing of the goings on in the
forest of Arden?
39. With whom will Jaques spend his time and where? Lines 165-180
40. Read over the epilogue. Define epilogue. What does Rosalind tell the women
to do and the men?
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