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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: 

The speaker is addressing _________

  • A. Duke and others
  • B. Emilia
  • C. the Senate
  • D. Lodovico and others
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3442

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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: 

The speech is intended to _______

  • A. preserve the speaker's reputation
  • B. express the speakers remorse
  • C. express the speaker's acceptance of guilt
  • D. denounce the speaker's enemies
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3443

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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: 

Among these unlucky deeds. the immediate one is _________

  • A. he killing of Desdemona
  • B. declaring Desdemiona as unfaithful
  • C. refusing to listen to Emilia
  • D. the sacking of Cassio
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3444

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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 speaker is ________

  • A. Brabantio
  • B. Othello
  • C. Duke
  • D. Montano
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3445

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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 occasion is _________

  • A. Othello's return from war
  • B. Othello's departure for Cyprus
  • C. Montano expressirig his delight after the tempest.
  • D. the defeat of the Turks.
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