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Plot Overview
 
 
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Act I, scenes i–ii
 
 
Act I, scene iii
 
 
Act II, scenes i–ii
 
 
Act II, scene iii
 
 
Act III, scenes i–iii
 
 
Act III, scene iv
 
 
Act IV, scene i
 
 
Act IV, scenes ii–iii
 
 
Act V, scenes i–ii
 
 
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Othello

 William Shakespeare
 

Quiz

 
1. What pattern is embroidered on the handkerchief?
 
 
2. How is the Turkish fleet thwarted?
 
 
3. What rank does Cassio hold before Othello strips it from him?
 
 
4. Which of the following animal epithets is not applied to Othello during the play?
 
 
5. How old is Iago?
 
 
6. What is “the beast with two backs”?
 
 
7. What is Brabanzio’s position in Venice?
 
 
8. Where does Iago tell Roderigo that Othello and Desdemona are sailing to from Cyprus?
 
 
9. Who made the handkerchief that Othello inherited from his mother?
 
 
10. What first attracted Desdemona to Othello?
 
 
11. What rank does Iago begrudgingly hold?
 
 
12. From whom did Desdemona first hear the “song of ‘Willow’”?
 
 
13. Which of the following epithets is most commonly applied to Iago throughout the play?
 
 
14. Whose death does Graziano report in the final scene?
 
 
15. Which of Cassio’s weaknesses does Iago exploit?
 
 
16. Whom does Iago refer to as the true general?
 
 
17. How does Othello kill Desdemona?
 
 
18. What, according to Iago, is the “green-eyed monster”?
 
 
19. Whom does Cassio wound in the drunken brawl of Act II, scene iii?
 
 
20. With whom does Cassio dine the night he is stabbed?
 
 
21. What is Othello holding as he stands over the sleeping Desdemona?
 
 
22. Who is the first character to refer to Othello by name?
 
 
23. According to Lodovico’s letter, who is to replace Othello as governor of Cyprus?
 
 
24. On the night of her death, what does Desdemona ask Emilia to do?
 
 
25. What does Iago counsel Roderigo to do?
 
 

 
 
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