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Act 3

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1) What is this act mainly about?

2) What does Flaminius bring to Lucullus?

3) How does the first stranger characterize the relationship between Timon and Lucius?

4) Who names himself as the first person who ever received a gift from Timon?

5) What does the second servant consider satisfactory revenge against Flavius?

6) Which quality does Alcibiades call "the virtue of the law"?

7) What punishment does the senate give to Alcibiades?

8) Which animal does the second lord compare himself and the other lords to?

9) Which of these is NOT an insult Timon uses to describe the lords who refused him?

10) What does the first stranger mean in the quote below?

"Men must learn now with pity to dispense;
For policy sits above conscience."

11) What does the first senator mean in the quote below?

"You cannot make gross sins look clear:
To revenge is no valour, but to bear."

12) What does Timon mean in the quote below?

"For your own gifts,
make yourselves praised: but reserve still to give,
lest your deities be despised. & quot;

13) Look where Servilius assures Lucius that if Timon's need "were not virtuous, / I should not urge it half so faithfully."

What does "virtuous" mean in this context?

14) Look where Flavius tells Timon that "There is not so much left, to furnish out / A moderate table."

What does "moderate" mean in this context?

15) Look where the second lord tells Timon that he is ashamed that he "was so unfortunate a beggar."

What does "unfortunate" mean in this context?

16) Were there any words that weren't clear to you?