Cassio

Question 1

I: ‘nor the division of a battle knows more…

Answer 1

…than a spinster’ A1.1

Question 2

I: ‘a fellow almost damned…

Answer 2

…in a fair wife’

Question 3

C: ’Tis my breeding
…

Answer 3

…That gives me this bold show of courtesy. (2.1.)

Question 4

I: that never set a…

Answer 4

… squadron in the field,
1.1

Question 5

‘paragons…

Answer 5

…description’ 2.1

Question 6

‘excels the quirks of…

Answer 6

…blazoning pens’ 2.1

Question 7

I have lost the immortal part of myself…

Answer 7

…and what remains is bestial.’ 2.3

Question 8

O, let the heavens give him defence against the elements…

Answer 8

…for I have lost him on a dangerous sea. 2.1

Question 9

Not tonight, good Iago; I have very poor …

Answer 9

… and unhappy / brains for drinking. 2.3

Question 10

‘Thou invisible spirit of wine…

Answer 10

…we shall call thee devil’ 2.3

Question 11

“zounds, you rogue…

Answer 11

…, you rascal!”

Juxtaposes his otherwise composed disposition when sober

Question 12

, give me advantage of some brief discourse…

Answer 12

… with Desdemona alone
3.1

Question 13

C: Sweet Bianca, take me ____.
B: This is some ____. To the felt ____ now I feel ____.
C: Throw your ____ in the ____ from whence you have them.

Answer 13

1. this work out
2. token from a newer friend
3. absence
4. a cause
5. vile guesses
6. devil’s teeth

3.4

Question 14

‘the riches of the ship…

Answer 14

…is come on shore’
2.1

Question 15

Alas, poor ____!

Answer 15

caitiff 4.1

Question 16

B: I ____ her? What! A ____! Ha, ha, ha!

Answer 16

1. marry
2. customer
   4.1

Question 17

C: ‘I am maimed…

Answer 17

…for ever! Help… murder, murder’ 5.1

Question 18

C: ‘I am spoiled…

Answer 18

…undone by villains’ 5.1

Question 19

C: ‘I think that [one of the villains is]…

Answer 19

…hereabout’

Question 20

What is significant about Othello and Cassio being divided while at sea?

Answer 20

• ## Foreshadows their approaching strife.

Question 21

What does Othello encourage ‘good Michael’ to have?

Answer 21

‘discretion’, the ‘honourable stop’

Question 22

Why is does Othello command Cassio to exercise ‘discretion’?

Answer 22

• He can already perceive the infirmity of his leadership, and fears that a failing on Cassio’s part would ‘shake’ it further.
• His drunkenness goes on to do just that.

Question 23

How does Cassio humiliate Iago?

Answer 23

• He is more eloquent, defends Desdemona.

Question 24

Why can it be surmised that Iago desires Cassio?

Answer 24

• Iago attests that they lay together once.
• He delivers an erotic and emotionally charged speech: ‘Cry “O sweet creature!” then kiss me hard, … then laid his leg
  O’er my thigh, and sighed, and kissed, and then

Question 25

How is Cassio shown to be the same as all other men?

Answer 25

- The way he treats people is entirely dependent on their social standing relative to him.