Cassio

Question 1

Drinking

Answer 1

‘I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

Question 2

Educated

Answer 2

‘a great arithmetician, / […] a Florentine, / […] That never set a squadron in the field.’

Question 3

Bianca

Answer 3

‘Poor caitiff! […] Poor rogue! […] I marry her? What! A customer!’

Question 4

Reputation

Answer 4

“I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial,”

Question 5

Breeding

Answer 5

‘Tis my breeding / That gives me this bold show of

courtesy’

Question 6

Iago

Answer 6

‘He hath a person and a smooth dispose/ to be suspected, framed to make women false.’

Question 7

Lodovico

Answer 7

“Cassio rules in Cyprus”

Question 8

After loss of reputation

Answer 8

“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!”

Question 9

Iago - fly

Answer 9

‘He takes her by the palm… With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.’

Question 10

‘a fellow almost damn’d in a fair wife’ - Robert Adger Law

Answer 10

Could mean ‘as’ - Cassio’s line to Iago, “ “You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.”

Cassio has no wife in play. Could mean ‘woman’:
e.g. Julius Caesar: “Men, wives, and children stare, cry out and run.”

“a fellow almost damn’d as a fair woman.”

Question 11

If the quote is actually “a fellow almost damn’d as a fair woman.”
what does that mean

Answer 11

Iago ‘is denouncing Cassio as unsoldierly and inexpert in war’. Attacks his effeminacy and makes it out that Cassio is too effeminate for his role.
Iago is jealous of Cassio’s inbred courtesy and gentleness which Desdemona respects.