Othello key quotes: Duplicity

Question 1

What did Iago say to Roderigo in Act 1,scene 1?

Answer 1

‘I will wear my heart on my sleeve for daws to peck at. I am not what I am.

Question 2

Which character said ‘make my fool my purse;’?

Answer 2

Iago (Act 1,scene 3 soliloquy)

Question 3

‘Put money in thy purse’

Answer 3

Act 1, scene 3

Question 4

‘Our bodies are gardens, to which our will are gardeners’. When did Iago say this?

Answer 4

Act 1, scene 3

Question 5

‘wild-cats in your kitchens, players in your housewifery’ Iago

Answer 5

Act 2, scene 1

Question 6

‘ensnare as great a fly as Cassio’

Answer 6

Act 2, scene 1

Question 7

(Aside) ‘I’ll set down the pegs that make this music’

Answer 7

Act 2, scene 1

Question 8

What did Iago say to Roderigo in reference to Cassio and Desdemona’s relationship?

Answer 8

‘an index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts’ - Act 2, scene 1

Question 9

‘Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used’

Answer 9

Iago soliloquy - Act 2, scene 1

Question 10

‘I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio’

Answer 10

Act 2, scene 3

Question 11

‘make the net that shall emmesh them all’

Answer 11

Act 2, scene 3 (soliloquy)

Question 12

‘She did deceive her father marrying you’

Answer 12

Act 3, scene 3

Question 13

‘He kneels ‘Witness here that Iago doth give up the execution of his wit, hands and heart’

Answer 13

Act 3, scene 3

Question 14

‘I am your own forever’

Answer 14

Act 3, scene 3’

Question 15

‘What if I said I had seen him do you wrong?’

Answer 15

Act 3, scene 4

Question 16

‘his unbookish jealousy must construe Poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures and light behaviours’

Answer 16

Act 4, scene 1

Question 17

‘Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated’

Answer 17

Act 4, scene 1

Question 18

(if you have not been with Desdemona) ‘take me from this world with treachery’

Answer 18

Iago to Roderigo Act 4, scene 2

Question 19

‘The world’s a huge thing; it is a great price for a small vice’

Answer 19

Emilia Act 4, scene 3

Question 20

‘I might do’t as well i’th’dark’

Answer 20

Contrast to Desdemona’s ‘heavenly light’ (Act 4, scene 3)

Question 21

‘Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?’

Answer 21

Act 4, scene 3

Question 22

‘O murderous slave! O villain’

Answer 22

Iago before stabbing Roderigo

Question 23

‘This is the night that either makes me, or fordoes me quite’

Answer 23

Act 5, scene 1

Question 24

Iago stabs Emilia from behind and exit

Answer 24

horrible husband - Act 5 scene 2