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91

Read the extract and answer this question.

If after every tempest come such calms.

May the winds blow till they have wakened death,

And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas

Olympus-high, and duck again as low

As hell's from heaven. If it were now to die, 
'T were now to be most happy: for I fear

My soul hath her content so absolute

That not another comfort like to this

Succeeds in unknown fate. 

(Act II, Scene One, lines 179 - 187)

The language of the extract is best described as _________

  • A. ironical
  • B. humorous
  • C. hyperbolical
  • D. sarcástie.
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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)

92

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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93

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)

The speaker is _________

  • A. Bianca
  • B. Cassio
  • C. Desdemona
  • D. Emilia
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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 such a trifle-

He begged of me to steal't.

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 223-227)

94

The speaker has just been threatened by ________

  • A. Cassio
  • B. lago
  • C. Lodovico
  • D. Othello
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95

Soon after this, the Speaker ________

  • A. attempts to run away
  • B. is arrested by Lodovico
  • C. is killed by lago
  • D. shows remorse
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