Act 1

Question 1

Iago 1.1
Were I … , I would … . /
In following him, I …

Answer 1

Iago 1.1.
Were I the moor, I would not be Iago. /
In following him, I follow but myself.

Question 2

Othello 1.2
My … , my … , and my … /
Shall … rightly.

Answer 2

Othello 1.2.
My parts, my title, and my perfect soul /
Shall manifest me rightly.

Question 3

Brabantio 1.3
She, in spite of … , /
Of … , of … , … , everything, /
To fall in love with … !

Answer 3

Brabantio 1.3.
She, in spite of nature, /
Of years, of country, credit, everything, /
To fall in love with what she feared to look on!

Question 4

Desdemona 1.3
If I be left behind, /
A … , and he go … , /
The rites for … are … me.

Answer 4

Desdemona 1.3.
If I be left behind,/
A moth of peace, and he go to war, /
The rites for which I love him are bereft me.

Question 5

Duke 1.3
If virtue no delighted … , /
Your son-in-law is … .

Answer 5

Duke 1.3.
If virtue no delighted beauty lack, /
Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.

Question 6

Brabantio 1.3
Look to her, Moor, if … : /
She has … , and … .

Answer 6

Brabantio 1.3.
Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: /
She has deceived her father, and may thee.

Question 7

Iago 1.3
[Cassio] hath a … and a … /
To be … – framed to … .

Answer 7

Iago 1.3.
[Cassio] hath a person and a smooth dispose /
To be suspected - framed to make women false.

Question 8

Iago 1.3
Hell and… /
Must bring … .

Answer 8

Iago 1.3.
Hell and night /
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.

Question 9

Othello 1.3
My life upon … . … Iago.

Answer 9

Othello 1.3.
My life upon her faith. Honest Iago.