othello quotes

Question 1

knee-crooking …

Answer 1

knave (a contemptable person who bows and scrapes)

A1S1- Iago

Question 2

obsequious …

Answer 2

bondage (obsessed with creeping and crawling)-iago A1S1

Question 3

how does Roderigo describe Othello in A1S1?

Answer 3

‘thick-lips’

‘lascivious moor’

Question 4

an old black ram is …

Answer 4

tupping your white ewe A1S1 -Iago

Question 5

what tell’st thou me …

Answer 5

of robbing? this is Venice; my house is not a grange. -(farmhouse) (A1S1) -Brabantio

Question 6

tying her duty, beauty, …

Answer 6

wit, and fortunes in an extravagant and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere -Roderigo A1S1

Question 7

O unhappy girl! with the ..

Answer 7

Moor, say’st thou? - who would be a father? -A1S1

Question 8

I lack ..

Answer 8

iniquity

-Iago (A2S1)

Question 9

Let him do …

Answer 9

his spite -Othello A2S1

Question 10

‘I love ..

Answer 10

the gentle desdemona’

-othello A2S1

Question 11

my parts, my title, …

Answer 11

and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly

Question 12

O thou foul thief, …

Answer 12

where hast thou stowed my daughter?

Question 13

thou has

Answer 13

enchanted her

Question 14

how does Brabantio describe Desdemona in A2S1?

Answer 14

‘tender, fair and happy’

Question 15

she is …

Answer 15

abused, stolen from me A1S3

Question 16

‘rude I am in my speech …

Answer 16

and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace’ -Othello A1S3

Question 17

they have used their dearest

Answer 17

action in the tented field

A1S3- his hands have been most valuable in the military

Question 18

she in spite of nature,

to fall in love with

Answer 18

of years, of country, credit, everything
what she feared to look on
Brabantio

Question 19

did you by indirect and forced courses

Answer 19

subdue and poison this young maiden’s affections?

Question 20

send of the lady (….) let her

if you do find me foul in her report (….)

Answer 20

speak of e before her father

let your sentence even fall upon my life

Question 21

she gave me for my pain

Answer 21

a world of sighs

Question 22

she loved me for the dangers I had passed,

Answer 22

and I loved her, that she did pity them

Question 23

often did beguile her of tears

charm tears from her

Answer 23

when I did speak of some distressed stroke

Question 24

I do perceive here

Answer 24

a divided duty

Question 25

that I did love the Moor to live with him,

Answer 25

my downright violence and storm of fortunes may trumpet to the world
(she rushes into marriage with Othello to show the world she loves him)

Question 26

vouch with me heaven, I therefore beg it not

Answer 26

to please the palate of my appetite

Question 27

if virtue no delighted beauty lack

if virtue is in itself charming and beautiful

Answer 27

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

Question 28

look to her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see

Answer 28

she has deceived her father, and may thee

Question 29

we must obey

Answer 29

the time

-saying this to Desdemona before he leaves for Cyprus

Question 30

these Moors are

Answer 30

changeable in their wills

Question 31

warlike

Answer 31

Moor Othello

Question 32

who uses the epithet ‘divine Desdemona’ in A2S1?

Answer 32

Cassio

Question 33

our great captain’s

Answer 33

captain

-Cassio about Desdemona (after she and Othello are married)

Question 34

‘hail to thee lady!’ who is Cassio speaking about here

Answer 34

desdemona

Question 35

‘Tis my breeding that

Answer 35

gives me this bold show of courtesy’ - (kisses Emilia)

Cassio to Emilia

Question 36

would she give you so much of her lips as her

Answer 36

tongue she oft bestows on me, you would have enough

Question 37

players in your housewifery,

players- deceivers

Answer 37

and housewives in your beds

women are only acting when they do housework, and really go to work in bed