Act 3 scene 3

Question 1

(Desdemona virtue)

Answer 1

If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it to the last article

Question 2

(Desdemona virtue) board a shrift

Answer 2

I’ll intermingle everything he does with Cassio’s suit

Question 3

(Iago insinuation)

Answer 3

Ha I like not that

Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it that he would steal away so guilty-like, seeing you coming

Question 4

(Desdemona persistence)

Answer 4

But shall’t be shortly?…. Shall’t be to-night at supper?… to-morrow dinner, then?……Why, then to-morrrow night: or Tuesday morn; On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn

Question 5

(Othello poor judgement of character)

Answer 5

This fellow’s of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit

Question 6

(Othello insecurities)

Answer 6

for I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation that chamberers have, or for I am declined into the vale of years

Question 7

(Misogyny)

Answer 7

O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites

Question 8

(Othello losing control of emotions)

Answer 8

Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, chaos is come again

Question 9

(Iago insinuation)

Answer 9

Did Michael Cassio, when you woo’d my lady, know of your love

Question 10

(Iago tactical evasion) therefore …. for such things

Answer 10

these stops of thine fright me the more

Question 11

(Iago tactical understatement ) I do beseech you

Answer 11

though I perchance am vicious in my guess

Question 12

Good name

Answer 12

in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls

Question 13

but

Answer 13

he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor instead

Question 14

(Iago malicious)

Answer 14

O beware my lord of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on

Question 15

(Othello hastiness)

Answer 15

to be once in doubt is once resolved

Question 16

(Iago insinuation) speak not yet of proof

Answer 16

Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio

Question 17

(Iago playing on Othello’s insecurities)

Answer 17

I know our country disposition well; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks they dare not show their husbands; their best conscience is not to leave’t undone, but keep’t unknown

Question 18

(Iago playing on Othello’s insecurities) she

Answer 18

she did deceive her father marrying you

Question 19

(Iago wry irony)but Desdemona’s honest

Answer 19

long live she so! and long live you to think so!

Question 20

( Iago tactical understatement)

Answer 20

My lord , I would I might entreat your honour to scan this thing no further; leave it to time

Question 21

( Iago tactical understatement) In the mean time

Answer 21

Let me be thought too busy in my fears

Question 22

(Emilia transgression)found this napkin:

Answer 22

this was her first remembrance if the moor

Question 23

(Emilia transgression) but

Answer 23

she so loves the token

Question 24

(Emilia transgression)keep it, that

Answer 24

she reserves it evermore about her to kiss and talk to. I’ll have the work ta’en out, And give’t Iago: what will we he do with it Heaven knows

Question 25

(Iago scheming)

Answer 25

trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ

Question 26

(Othello in distress)

Answer 26

thou hast set me on the rack

Question 27

(Othello in distress) (O damaged pride)O, now for ever

Answer 27

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plume troop and the big wars, that make ambition virtue! O, farewell! farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump

Question 28

(O damaged pride) the royal banner, and

Answer 28

all quality, pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war

Question 29

(O damaged pride) dead clamours counterfeit

Answer 29

Farewell! Othello’s occupations gone

Question 30

(Othello demand for proof) be sure of it

Answer 30

give me the ocular proof

Question 31

(Othello incandescent rage) man’s eternal soul

Answer 31

thou hadst been better have been born a dog than answer my waked wrath

Question 32

(Othello tragedy)

Answer 32

On horror’s head horrors accumulate

Question 33

(Othello bewilderment)

Answer 33

I think my wife be honest and think she is not; I think thou art just and think thou art not

Question 34

(Othello internalises racist stereotypes)

Answer 34

her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face

Question 35

(Iago lewd profanity)

Answer 35

Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on – behold her topp’d?… It is impossible you should see this, were they as primed as goats, as hot as monkeys, As salt as wolves in pride

Question 36

(Iago bare-faced lies)

Answer 36

I lay with Cassio lately

Question 37

(Iago tactical understatement)

Answer 37

Nay, this was but a dream

Question 38

(Othello racist)

Answer 38

Arise black vengeance, from thy hollow cell

Question 39

(Othello violence)

Answer 39

O, blood, blood, blood

my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, shall ne’er look back

Question 40

(Iago duplicity)

Answer 40

witness, you-ever burning lights above, you elements that clip us round about, witness that here Iago doth give up the execution of his wit, hands, heart, to wrong’d Othello’s service

Question 41

(Othello violence)

Answer 41

within these three days let me hear thee say that Cassio’s not alive

Question 42

(dramatic Irony)

Answer 42

but my noble moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are

Question 43

(Othello tests Iago’s reports)

Answer 43

I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me; Lend me thy handkerchief…fetch me the handkerchief, my mind mistakes

Question 44

(Emilia’s cynicism)

Answer 44

tis not a year or two shows us a man; they are all but stomachs and we all but food; to eat us hungrerly, and when they are full, they belch us out

Question 45

(Desdemona describing Othello’s downfall)

Answer 45

My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him