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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)

.... so good a commander refers to

  • A. Brabantio
  • B. Duke
  • C. Othelo
  • D. Roderigo
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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)

The underlined expression exemplifies __________

  • A. antithesis
  • B. apostrophe
  • C. chiasmus
  • D. euphemism
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Read the extract and answer Questions 41 to 45. 41.

This sight would make him do a desperate turn:

Yea, curse his better angel from his side,

Speaker Y: T is pitiful, but yet lago knows

A thousand times committed.

Cassio confessed it;

.. he ..., referred to by Speaker X, is __________

  • A. Brabantio
  • B. Gratiano
  • C. Montano
  • D. Lodovico
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..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)

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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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