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When remedies are past, griefs are ended

By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone

Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,

Patience her injury a mock'ry makes.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief;

He robs himself that spends a bootless grief

3431

The underlined expression means ________

  • A. one is bound to lose something in life
  • B. keep smiling even while being robbed
  • C. it is useful not to bemoan one's loss
  • D. the thief loses either way
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Thou art sure of me. Go, make money. I have told thee

Often, and I retell thee again and again, I hate the Moor.

My cause is hearted: thine has no less reason. Let us be

conjuctive in our revenge against him. If thou canst

Cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport.

There are many events in the womb of time, which wi

be delivered. Traverse, go, provide thy money! We will

have mnore of this tomorrow. Adieu.

(Act I, Scene Three, lines 355-362

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The speaker and the addrešsee are ___________
 

  • A. Lodovico and Roderigo
  • B. Clown and Lodovico
  • C. lago and Roderigo
  • D. lago and Clown.
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3433

What binds the speaker and addressee together is their _______

  • A. hatred for Othello
  • B. fear of Cassio
  • C. fear of Cassio
  • D. hatred for Brabantio
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Read the extract and answer this question.

I have done the state some service, and they know't.

No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,

When you shall these unlucky deeds relate.

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate.

Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak

Of one that loved not wisely, but too well: 

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The addressee is enjoined to Go, make money for ___________

  • A. wooing Desdemona
  • B. enriching lago
  • C. placating Brabantio
  • D. rewarding Bianca
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3435

The underlined expression means ________

  • A. you have your way by making him angry
  • B. you gain by making his wife cheat on him
  • C. you will not be delighted at the result
  • D. you will have succeeded in seducing her
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