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🗡 Othello – A-level

English Literature · A-level — practises plot, characters, themes and key quotations from Shakespeare's Othello

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Questions

In Act 1, what reason does Iago first give Roderigo for resenting Othello?

Othello refused to let Iago marry Desdemona
Othello made Cassio lieutenant instead of him
Othello publicly accused Iago of theft
Othello sent Iago away from the wars in Cyprus
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Why do Othello and the other main characters leave Venice for Cyprus at the start of Act 2?

To escape Brabantio's anger at the marriage
To celebrate the wedding away from Venice
To put down a rebellion by Cypriot nobles
To defend the island against a Turkish fleet
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Who picks up the handkerchief Desdemona drops in Act 3 Scene 3 and passes it to Iago?

Bianca
Emilia
Cassio
Roderigo
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Who warns, 'O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on'?

Iago to Othello
Cassio to Iago
Desdemona to Othello
Emilia to Desdemona
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Cassio cries, 'Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!' What has just happened to him?

He was wounded in an ambush by Roderigo
He was accused of an affair with Desdemona
He was dismissed after a drunken brawl
He was caught with Desdemona's handkerchief
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Iago shouts to Brabantio that 'an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe'. Which theme does this image mainly exploit?

Racial prejudice and fear of interracial marriage
The duty soldiers owe to the Venetian state
The conflict between Christians and Turks
The loyalty servants owe to their masters
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Brabantio warns Othello, 'She has deceived her father, and may thee.' Who later echoes this idea to poison Othello's mind?

Iago
Lodovico
Emilia
Roderigo
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Which critic described Iago's soliloquies as 'the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity'?

A. C. Bradley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Johnson
F. R. Leavis
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When Emilia asks the dying Desdemona who has killed her, whom does Desdemona name?

Cassio
Iago
Othello
Herself
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How does Iago respond in Act 5 when Othello demands to know why he ensnared him?

He claims Emilia's infidelity drove him to it
He vows never to speak another word
He begs Othello and the Venetians for mercy
He confesses that he secretly loved Desdemona
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