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41

..do a desperate turn means _______

  • A. commit suicide
  • B. confront Duke
  • C. disown Desdemona
  • D. kill Othello
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Speaker X: ...Did he live now,

This sight would make him do a desperate turn;

Yea, curse his better angel from his side,

And fall to reprobation.

Speaker Y: 'T is pitiful; but yet Iago knows

That she with Cassio hath the act of shame

A thousand times committed. Cassio confessed it;

And she did gratify his amorous works

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 204-211)

42

Speaker Y's speech shows that _________

  • A. Cassio is to blame
  • B. Emilia is to blame
  • C. he is unrepentant
  • D. she is regretful
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Speaker X: ...Did he live now,\

This sight will make him do a desperate turn;

Yea, curse his better angel from his side, 

And fall to reprobation.

 

Speaker Y: 'T is pitiful; but yet Iago knows\

That she with Cassio hath the act of shame

A thousand times committed. Cassio confessed it;

And she did gratify his amorous works

(Act V, Scene 2, lines 204-211)

43

Speaker Y has just ______

  • A. discovered lago's plan
  • B. killed, Desdemona
  • C. ordered the arrest of lago
  • D. promoted Cassio
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44

Just after this dialogue __________

  • A. Cassio is killed
  • B. Emilia realises her culpability
  • C. lago gloats over his success
  • D. Roderigo fights Cassio
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Read the extract and answer Questions 46 to 50.

O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak'st of

I found by fortune, and did give my husband;

For often with a solemn earnestness-

More than indeed belonged to such a trifie-

He begged of me to steal't. (Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 - 227)

45

The speaker is _________

  • A. Bianca
  • B. Cassio
  • C. Desdemona
  • D. Emilia
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