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WorksheetsOthello Review
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The person who rats out Othello and Desdemona’s relationship to Brabantio and begins the rising action of the play.
a)
Roderigo
b)
Iago
2.
The man Othello named his lieutenant.
a)
Iago
b)
Roderigo
c)
Brabantio
d)
Cassio
3.
The first two secret acts of the play.
a)
Othello isn't really a soldier, and he hates Desdemona.
b)
Iago actually respects Othello and hates Desdemona.
c)
•the marriage between Desdemona and Othello and the hidden relationship between Iago and Roderigo to bring Othello to his downfall
4.
The literary term used by describing Othello as “an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”; “you’ll have your daughter daughter covered with a Barabary horse”; “your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”
a)
imagery
b)
foreshadowing
c)
flashback
d)
satire
5.
Brabantio believes that this is the only possible explanation why Desdemona would have married the Moor.
a)
She wants his money.
b)
She loves him.
c)
Enchantment
d)
She is lonely.
6.
These ships were tossed into the rocks and thus lost the battle for Cyprus before it was even begun.
a)
Germany Fleet
b)
Turkish Fleet
c)
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
7.
This person was entrusted by Othello to get Desdemona safely to Cyprus.
a)
Roderigo
b)
Iago
c)
Duke of Venice
d)
Emilia
8.
The metaphor Shakespeare uses to represent jealousy.
a)
Green with envy.
b)
Seeing red.
c)
Jealousy is hateful.
d)
"green-eyed monster"
9.
This character provides the comic relief needed after Iago’s plot to destroy them all is revealed and is employed by Cassio to serenade Othello and Desdemona.
a)
Othello
b)
The Duke of Venice
c)
a clown
d)
Emilia
10.
This key symbol represents the love and later the distrust between Othello and Desdemona.
a)
a ring
b)
a handkerchief
c)
a necklace
d)
pretty shoes
11.
Othello demands from Iago that Cassio be dead within this number of days.
a)
4
b)
3
c)
2
d)
5
12.
Othello experiences this when he becomes so enraged by Iago’s lies and believes Desdemona to be unfaithful.
a)
epileptic seizure
b)
whooping cough
c)
anxiety attack
d)
fit of laughter
13.
He is a general from Venice whose presence signifies as a reminder of the distance that Othello has come in his transformation from a respected general to a man tormented by jealous rage.
a)
Iago
b)
Lodovico
c)
Duke of Venice
d)
Bob
14.
Who says, “Speak of me as I am…Of one that loved not wisely, but too well;/ Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought,/ Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,/ Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away/ Richer than all his tribe. . .” (V.ii.341-347).
a)
Iago
b)
Othello
c)
Desdemona
d)
Roderigo
15.
Who says, “The world’s a huge thing; it is a great prize/ For a small vice. . .But for all the whole/ world? ‘Ud’s pity, who would not make her husband a/ cuckold to make him a monarch?” (IV.iii.65-72)
a)
Iago
b)
Desdemona
c)
Emilia
d)
Lodovico
16.
Iago kills these two people in order to protect his duplicity and then places the blame for the attack on this person.
a)
Roderigo and Bianca
b)
Othello and Desdemona
c)
Emilia and the Duke of Venice
d)
Emilia and Bianca
17.
Who says, “And what’s he, then, that says I play the villain,/ When this advice is free I give and honest. . .” (II.iii.318-319).
a)
Iago
b)
Othello
c)
Cassio
d)
Bianca
18.
Who says, “Oh, I have lost/ my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of/ myself, and what remains is bestial ” (II.iii.249-250).
a)
Othello
b)
Iago
c)
Cassio
d)
the clown
19.
Who says, “I am not merry, but I do beguile/ The thing I am by seeming otherwise” (II.i.123-124).
a)
Bianca
b)
Desdemona
c)
Cassio
d)
Lodovico
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