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Read the extract and answer Questions 36 to 40.
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a
commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet
an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble!
swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own
shadow! a thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no
name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
                                     (Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)

121

The underlined expression exemplifies __________

  • A. antithesis
  • B. apostrophe
  • C. chiasmus
  • D. euphemism
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122

..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)

123

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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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)

124

The speaker is _________

  • A. Bianca
  • B. Cassio
  • C. Desdemona
  • D. Emilia
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125

The speaker has just been threatened by ________

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