Act 1 quotations

Question 1

“A fellow almost…” - Iago (about Cassio) (A1S1)

Answer 1

“A fellow almost damn’d in a fair wife”

Question 2

“I am not…” - Iago (A1S1)

Answer 2

“I am not what I am”

Question 3

“…lips” - Iago (about Othello) (A1S1)

Answer 3

“Thick- lips”

Question 4

“…plague him with flies” - Iago (A1S1)

Answer 4

“And though he in a fertile climate dwell, plague him with flies”

Question 5

“Even now, now, very now…” - Iago (A1S1)

Answer 5

“Even now, now, very now an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”

Question 6

“The devil will make…” - Iago (A1S1)

Answer 6

“The devil will make a grandsire of you”

Question 7

“…Barbary horse” - Iago (A1S1)

Answer 7

“You’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse”

Question 8

“Your daughter and the moor are now…” - Iago (A1S1)

Answer 8

“Your daughter and the moor are now making the beast with two backs”

Question 9

“…Moor” - Roderigo (A1S1)

Answer 9

“Lascivious Moor”

Question 10

“I love the…” - Othello (A1S2)

Answer 10

“I love the gentle Desdemona”

Question 11

“Keep up your bright…” - Othello (A1S2)

Answer 11

“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them”

Question 12

“…rather than your weapons” - Othello (A1S2)

Answer 12

“You shall more command with years rather than your weapons”

Question 13

“O thou foul thief!…” - Brabantio (A1S2)

Answer 13

“O thou foul thief! Where hast thou stowed my daughter?”

Question 14

“Damn’d as thou art…” - Brabantio (A1S2)

Answer 14

“Damn’d as thou art, thou hast enchanted her”

Question 15

“The sooty bosom…” - Brabantio (A1S2)

Answer 15

“The sooty bosom of such a thing as thou”

Question 16

“…abus’d her delicate youth with drugs of minerals” - Brabantio (A1S2)

Answer 16

“That thou hast practis’d on her with foul charms, abus’d her delicate youth with drugs of minerals”

Question 17

“…Othello” - Duke (A1S3)

Answer 17

“Valiant Othello”

Question 18

“She is abus’d, stol’n from me…” - Brabantio (A1S3)

Answer 18

“She is abus’d, stol’n from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines”

Question 19

“…what she’d fear’d to look on?” - Brabantio (A1S3)

Answer 19

“To fall in love with what she’d fear’d to look on?”

Question 20

“She lov’d me for the dangers…” - Othello (A1S3)

Answer 20

“She lov’d me for the dangers I had pass’d, and I lov’d her that she did pity them”

Question 21

“A man he is of…” - Othello (A1S3)

Answer 21

“A man he is of honesty and trust”

Question 22

“…more fair than black” - Duke (A1S3)

Answer 22

“Your son-in-law is far more fair than black”

Question 23

“Look at her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see…” - Brabantio (A1S3)

Answer 23

“Look at her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see; she has deciev’d her father and may thee”

Question 24

“Honest…” - Othello (A1S3)

Answer 24

“Honest Iago”

Question 25

“…we are thus or thus” - Iago (A1S3)

Answer 25

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus”

Question 26

“Put money…” - Iago (A1S3)

Answer 26

“Put money in thy purse”

Question 27

“I hate the…” - Iago (A1S3)

Answer 27

“I hate the Moor”

Question 28

“If thou canst cuckold him…” - Iago (A1S3)

Answer 28

“If thou canst cuckold him, thy dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport”

Question 29

“…that thinks men honest that but seem to be so” - Iago (A1S3)

Answer 29

“The moor is of a free and open nature, that thinks men honest that but seem to be so”

Question 30

“That will as tenderly be…” - Iago (A1S3)

Answer 30

“That will as tenderly be led by the noses as asses are”