Roderigo

Question 1

racial prejudice

Answer 1

‘What a full fortune does the thick lips owe’

Question 2

Othello as sexually salacious

Answer 2

‘To the gross clasps of a lascivious moor’

Question 3

Roderigo’s description of Desdemona

Answer 3

‘duty, beauty, wit and fortunes

Question 4

Roderigo’s dramatic reaction to the marriage of Othello and Desdemona

Answer 4

‘I will incontinently drown myself’

Question 5

Roderigo is feeling hopeless

Answer 5

‘it is silliness to live, when to live is torment’

Question 6

Roderigo stands up for himself

Answer 6

‘I will indeed no longer endure it’

Question 7

Roderigo recognises his naivety

Answer 7

‘I have foolishly suffered’

Question 8

Roderigo realises it was all a waste of time

Answer 8

‘I have wasted myself out of
my means’

Question 9

Roderigo curses Iago

Answer 9

‘O damn’d Iago! O inhuman dog!’