othello act 1

Question 1

who has money

Answer 1

roderigo

Question 2

who uses roderigo’s money

Answer 2

iago

Question 3

villian, backstabber, smart

Answer 3

iago

Question 4

says he’s using money to woo desdamona for roderigo

Answer 4

iago

Question 5

Iago appears to be loyal to ___ but he is actually ____

Answer 5

othello

jealous

Question 6

important theme of

Answer 6

head vs. heart

Question 7

who represents head

who represents heart

Answer 7

head- iago

heart-othello

Question 8

who does othello promote over iago

Answer 8

michael cassio

Question 9

what is known about florentines

Answer 9

womanizers

Question 10

who wrote the Prince

Answer 10

Machievelii

Question 11

who is Iago based off of

Answer 11

Machievelli for his evilness, wickedness, and strategicness

Question 12

what is venice famous for

Answer 12

canals

Question 13

"even now, now, very now, an old balck ram 
is tupping your white ewe"
speaker to who?
about who?
imagery?

Answer 13

iago to brabantia
about othello and desdemona
animal imagery
vulgarityhw

Question 14

what is the beast with two backs

Answer 14

sex

Question 15

who says the beast with two backs

Answer 15

iago

Question 16

“i must show out a flag and sign of love”

Answer 16

iago

Question 17

color imagery colors

Answer 17

white- desdemona
black-othello
green- jealousy

Question 18

why is it appropriate for iago to swear upon janus

Answer 18

janus is the two faced roman god of beginnings and transitions.

Question 19

who is the vulgar character

Answer 19

iago

Question 20

iago tries to influence who onto his side

Answer 20

cassio

Question 21

why does iago draw against roderigo

Answer 21

for show

Question 22

how had desdemona gone against nature

Answer 22

white v.s black
young vs. old
class diffrerence 
gentle vs. warrior
Christian vs. Moor

Question 23

“Mine’s not an idle cause: the duke himself”

speaker

Answer 23

brabantio about arresting othello

Question 24

why does Desdemona love Othello

Answer 24

for his battle stories. all the dangers he’s been through.

Othello loves her for her strong emotions towards him

Question 25

"she loved me for the dangers I had pass'd, | And I loved her that she did pity them."

Answer 25

othello about Desdemona

Question 26

how does the duke try to restore peace

Answer 26

he says that if you lament something that's already happened, then you are setting yourself up for more bad news.

Question 27

"our bodies are _______" | speaker?

Answer 27

iago | gardens

Question 28

"that we are ____ or _____"

Answer 28

thus or thus | iago

Question 29

put money in thy purse meanse

Answer 29

liquidate your assets | sell land to have more cash

Question 30

what rumour does iago believe

Answer 30

that othello slept with iago's wife

Question 31

"he has done my office"

Answer 31

iago about othello sleeping with his wife.

Question 32

"and will as tenderly be led by the nose | as asses are"

Answer 32

iago about othello

Question 33

who is the voice of reason to brabantio

Answer 33

duke

Question 34

who is put in charge of desdemona's ship by othello

Answer 34

iago

Question 35

most complex character flaw

Answer 35

not a good judge of character but Iago is a master

Question 36

what does roderigo think about

Answer 36

killing himself

Question 37

"I do percieve here a divided duty"

Answer 37

desdemona about father and othello

Question 38

"She'd come again with a greedy ear | devour up my discourse"

Answer 38

othello about desd

Question 39

"But we have reason to cool our raging motions"

Answer 39

iago to roderigo | head v.s. heart

Question 40

"thus do i ever make my fool my purse"

Answer 40

iago about roderigo

Question 41

"rude am i in speech"

Answer 41

othello | irony-eloquent man

Question 42

"i follow him to serve my turn upon him"

Answer 42

iago to roderigo about othello | app v.s reality

Question 43

"incense her kisman, and though he in a fertile climate dwell plague him with flies"

Answer 43

iago to roderigo about brabantio | plant imagery

Question 44

"a man he is of honesty and trust and to his conveyance I assign my wife"

Answer 44

othello about iago | irony

Question 45

I must show out a flag and sign of love"

Answer 45

iago to roderigo | app vs. relaity

Question 46

" thou hast practiced on her with foul charms"

Answer 46

brabantio to othello about desd

Question 47

"and little of this great world can I speak mor than pertains to feats of broil and battle and therefore little shall i ggrace my cause in speaking for myself"

Answer 47

othello to senate

Question 48

"to fall in love with what she feared to look on!... Against all rules of nature"

Answer 48

brabantio about desdemona loving othello

Question 49

"tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. our bodies are our gardens"

Answer 49

iago | garden imagry

Question 50

"the moor is of a free and open nature | that thinks men honest that but seem to be so. and will be led by nose as asses are"

Answer 50

iago talking about othello's nobleness

Question 51

when devils will the blackest sins put on/ they do suggest at first with heavenly shows/ as I do now"

Answer 51

iago