Othello

Question 1

Written when?

Answer 1

1603

Question 2

Who ruled?

Answer 2

Elizabeth died in March, succeeded by king James VI

Question 3

Act 3 Scene 3 p.125 Othello is rational

Answer 3

No Iago, I’ll see before I doubt.

Question 4

Act 1 Scene 3 p.33 Othello and Desdemona’s love story

Answer 4

She loved me for the dangers I had passed and I loved her that she did pity them.

Question 5

Act 2 Scene 3 p.93 Othello loves Iago

Answer 5

Your honesty and love doth mince this matter

Question 6

Act 4 Scene 2 p.197 Desdemona’s love can’t die

Answer 6

His unkindness may defeat my life but never taint my love.

Question 7

Act 3 Scene 4 p.153 Emilia married too early

Answer 7

This not a year or two shows us a man

Question 8

Act 1 Scene 1 p.3 Iago judges Cassio

Answer 8

A fellow almost damned in a fair wife

Question 9

Act 1 Scene 2 p.17 Othello has faith in peoples judgments of him

Answer 9

My parts, my title and my perfect soul will manifest me rightly.

Question 10

Act 1 Scene 2 p.19 Brabantio claims witchcraft

Answer 10

Thou hast enchanted her

To the sooty bosom of such a thing as thou

Question 11

Act 1 Scene 3 p.27 Othello can’t speak

Answer 11

Little blessed with the soft phrase of peace

Question 12

Act 1 Scene 3 p.33 Desdemona knew he was dangerous

Answer 12

She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished that heaven had made her such a man.

Question 13

Act 1 Scene 3 p.33 Desdemona is caught in the middle of

Answer 13

I do perceive here a divided duty

Question 14

Act 1 Scene 3 p.41 sweet or rascist…?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Act 1 Scene 3 p.41 Brabantio knows what’s up

Answer 15

She has deceived her father, and may thee

Question 16

Act 1 Scene 3 p.43 Iago’s opinion on D and O’s marriage

Answer 16

A frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian

Question 17

Act 1 Scene 3 p.45 Iago doesn’t check the facts

Answer 17

for mere suspicion in that kind, will do as if for surety.

Question 18

Act 1 Scene 3 p.47 iago casts a magic spell

Answer 18

Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light

Question 19

Act 2 Scene 1 p.61 Cassio’s view of Desdemona

Answer 19

Divine Desdemona

Our great captain’s captain.

Question 20

Iago act 2 scene 1 p.71 Iago is an artist

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Iago Act 2 Scene 1 p.73 Iago and wine

Answer 21

The wine she drinks is made of grapes

Question 22

act 2 scene 1 p.75 an eye for an eye

Answer 22

Wife for wife

Question 23

Act 2 scene 3 p.89 those that react to anger die

Answer 23

He that stirs next to carve for his own rage holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.

Question 24

Act 2 scene 3 p.93 foreshadowing Othello’s actions

Answer 24

as men in rage strike those that wish him best

Question 25

Act 2 Scene 3 p.95 Casso’s rule of three

Answer 25

Reputation, reputation, reputation!

Question 26

Act 3 scene 3 p.119 Othello predicts the end of the world

Answer 26

When I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

Question 27

Iago Act 3 Scene 3 p.123 Iago admits he’s delulu

Answer 27

Oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Question 28

Act 3 Scene 3 p.125 that really famous quote

Answer 28

It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.

Question 29

Act 3 Scene 3 p.133 Emilia wants to please Iago

Answer 29

I nothing but to please his fantasy

Question 30

Act 3 Scene 3 p.135 coward’s weapon

Answer 30

The moor already changes with my poison

Question 31

Act 3 Scene 3 p.139 Iago’s thoughts on honesty

Answer 31

For honesty’s a fool, And loses that it works for

Question 32

Act 3 Scene 3 p.139 Othello is rascist

Answer 32

Begrimed and black as mine own face.

Question 33

Act 4 scene 1 p.167 Othello references the plague

Answer 33

As doth the raven o’er the infected house

Question 34

Why is Iago obsessed with being ‘a man?’

Answer 34

It adds emphasis to the betrayal Desdemona has caused Othello, ruining his reputation as a man.

Question 35

Act 4 scene 1 p.183 Othello - Crocodile tears

Answer 35

If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears, each drop would prove a crocodile.

Question 36

Act 4 Scene 2 p.187 Othello hates Emilia

Answer 36

She’s a simple bawd that cannot say much.

Question 37

Act 4 Scene 2 p.199 Roderigo calls Iago out

Answer 37

your words and performances are no kin together

Question 38

Act 4 scene 3 p.209 Emilia is a feminist icon

Answer 38

But i do think it is their husbands’ faults if wives do fall

Question 39

Act 5 Scene 1 p.219 Iago doesn’t care who dies

Answer 39

Every way makes my gain.

Question 40

Act 5 Scene 1 p.221 Othello wants lust for lust

Answer 40

Thy bed lust-stained shall with lust’s blood be spotted.

Question 41

Act 5 Scene 1 p.227 Bianca knows her worth

Answer 41

But of life as honest as you that thus abuse me

Question 42

Act 5 Scene 2 p.229 Othello talks about Desdemona’s Whitness

Answer 42

That whiter skin of hers than snow, and smooth as monumental alabaster.

Question 43

Act 5 Scene 2 p.237 Desdemona protects Othello

Answer 43

A guiltless death i die

Nobody. I myself.

Question 44

Act 5 Scene 2 p.241 Emilia criticises their marriage.

Answer 44

She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.

Question 45

Act 5 Scene 5 p.251 Iago refuses to speak

Answer 45

Demand me nothing. What you know, you know.

Question 46

Act 5 Scene 2 p.249 Othello misses Desdemona

Answer 46

Cold, cold. My girl. Even like thy chastity.