Act 2 scene 1

Question 1

(imagery) The chidden billow seemed to pelt the clouds =

Answer 1

the wind-shaked surge, the high and monstrous mane

Question 2

(imagery) The ——- hath so bang’d the Turks

Answer 2

Desperate tempest

Question 3

(Foreshadowing)And prays the moor be safe for they —-

Answer 3

were parted with and violent tempest

Question 4

Foreshadowing)For

Answer 4

I have lost him on a dangerous sea

Question 5

(Cassio describing Desdemona)Most fortunately: he hath achieved —-

Answer 5

a maid that paragons description and wild fame; one that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, And in the essential vesture of creation Does tire the integer

Question 6

(imagery) Tempests themselves—

Answer 6

high seas and howling winds, the gutter’s rocks and congregated sands

Question 7

(Cassio describing Desdemona and her saintliness) Hail to thee lady! –

Answer 7

and the grace of heaven

Question 8

(Iago’s sexism) You are

Answer 8

pictures out of doors, Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens , Saints in your injuries, devils being offended, Players in your housewifery, and housewives’ in your beds

Question 9

(Iago’s facile vernacular)

Answer 9

These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh I’ the alehouse

Question 10

(Iago’s profanity by D) Is he not a most

Answer 10

Profane and liberal counsellor

Question 11

(Cassio on Iago’s coarseness) –

Answer 11

He speaks home, madam: you may relish him more in soldier than scholar

Question 12

(Iago showing malice) Well, said, whisper :

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with as little as a web as this I will ensnare as great a fly as Cassio

Question 13

(Iago showing malice) Ay smile upon her, do

Answer 13

I will give you in your courtesies

Question 14

(Iago showing malice) you say true, ‘tis so, indeed

Answer 14

if such tricks as these strip you of your lie tenantry

Question 15

(Othello’s emotional over- investment in D)

Answer 15

O my soul’s joy! if after every tempest come such calms

Question 16

(Othello’s emotional over- investment in D) low as hell’s from heaven

Answer 16

If it were now to die, ‘There now to be most happy

Question 17

(Iagos’s malice and cunning) O, you are well turned now

Answer 17

But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music

Question 18

(Iago’s racism) Her eye must be fed; and what

Answer 18

delight shall she have to look on the devil?

Question 19

(Description of insatiable lust)

Answer 19

Her eye must be fed

Question 20

(Description of insatiable lust) look on the devil?

Answer 20

When the blood is made dull with the act of sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to give satiety a fresh appetite

Question 21

( R on D’s holiness) she’s

Answer 21

full of most blessed condition

Question 22

( Iago on Cassio)

Answer 22

he is rash and very sudden in choller