Iago

Question 1

In Act 1, Scene 3, how does Iago compare Othello to an ass?

Answer 1

“The Moor is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that seem to be so; and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are”

Question 2

In Act 1, Scene 1, where does Iago say he has seen the proof at?

Answer 2

“Seen the proof at Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds”

Question 3

In Act 1, Scene 1, what does Iago say in regards to him not being appointed Othello’s lieutenant?

Answer 3

“I know my price, I am worth no worse a place”

Question 4

In Act 1, Scene 1, why does Iago say he follows Othello?

Answer 4

“I follow him to serve my turn upon him”

Question 5

In Act 1, Scene 1, what does Iago say he is not?

Answer 5

“I am not what I am”

Question 6

In Act 1, Scene 1, how does Iago use grotesque racist imagery in reference to Desdemona and Othello? (2 Examples)

Answer 6

• “An old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
• “You’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse”

Question 7

In Act 1, Scene 2, what does Iago tell Cassio Othello “hath boarded” in reference to Desdemona?

Answer 7

“He tonight hath boarded a land carrack”

Question 8

In Act 1, Scene 2, how does Iago demonstrate his double-crossing nature in response to Roderigo and Brabantio’s men?

Answer 8

“You, Roderigo! Come, sir, I am for you”

Question 9

In Act 1, Scene 3, how does Iago question Roderigo’s masculinity in response to him saying he is going to “Incontinently drown myself”?

Answer 9

“Come, be a man. Drown thyself! Drown cats and blind puppies”

Question 10

In Act 1, Scene 3, how does Iago urge Roderigo to give him money? (2 Examples)

Answer 10

• “Put money in thy purse”
• “Go, make money”

Question 11

In Act 1, Scene 3, how does Iago suggest a binary opposition between Othello and Desdemona?

Answer 11

“An erring barbarian and a super subtle Venetian”

Question 12

In Act 1, Scene 3, how does Iago reference Roderigo?

Answer 12

“I ever make my fool my purse”

Question 13

In Act 1, Scene 3, what does Iago reveal he suspects Othello of doing?

Answer 13

“It is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets, he has done my office”

Question 14

In Act 1, Scene 3, how does Iago refer to his schemes?

Answer 14

“Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light”

Question 15

In Act 2, Scene 1, how does Iago demonstrate his misogynistic view of women?

Answer 15

“You rise to play and go to bed to work”

Question 16

In Act 2, Scene 1, how does Iago use string imagery to suggest his manipulations?

Answer 16

“O, you are well tuned now! But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music”

Question 17

In Act 2, Scene 1, how does Iago use racist language to convince Roderigo of Desdemona’s infidelity?

Answer 17

“Her eyes must be fed; and what delight shall she have to look upon the devil?”

Question 18

In Act 2, Scene 1, what does Iago say is the only thing that will “Diet my revenge”?

Answer 18

“I put the Moor into a jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure”

Question 19

In Act 2, Scene 3, how does Iago attempt to provoke Cassio to speak degradingly of Desdemona?

Answer 19

“I’ll warrant her, full of game”

Question 20

In Act 2, Scene 3, how does Iago refer to Roderigo?

Answer 20

“My sick fool”

Question 21

In Act 2, Scene 3, what does Iago say he will do to Othello’s ear?

Answer 21

“I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear”

Question 22

In Act 2, Scene 3, what does Iago claim he will do to Desdemona’s goodness?

Answer 22

“So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all”

Question 23

In Act 2, Scene 3, how does Iago open his soliloquy, suggesting he bathes his own villainy?

Answer 23

“And what’s he then that says I play the villain?”

Question 24

In Act 2, Scene 1, what does Iago remark regarding him getting revenge on Othello for allegedly sleeping with his wife?

Answer 24

“Nothing can or shall content my soul till I am even’d with him, wife for wife”

Question 25

In Act 3, Scene 3, what does Iago say to Othello regarding Desdemona and her father?

Answer 25

“She did deceive her father, marrying you”

Question 26

In Act 3, Scene 3, what does Iago remarking following Desdemona and Cassio’s interaction to Othello? (2 Examples)

Answer 26

• “Ha! I like not that”
• “Cassio, my lord! No sure, I cannot think it, that he would steal away so guilty-like seeing you coming”

Question 27

In Act 3, Scene 3, what does Iago remark regarding reputation?

Answer 27

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls”

Question 28

In Act 3, Scene 3, how does Iago mimic reluctance when implying that he believes Desdemona to be having an affair with Cassio?

Answer 28

“Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false”

Question 29

In Act 3, Scene 3, what does Iago famously remark regarding jealousy?

Answer 29

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on”

Question 30

In Act 3, Scene 3, what does Iago instruct Othello to look to?

Answer 30

“Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio”

Question 31

In Act 3, Scene 3, how does Iago implicate Othello’s race in Desdemona’s supposed infidelity?

Answer 31

“When she seem’d to shake and fear your looks, she loved them most”

Question 32

In Act 3, Scene 3, how does Iago pave the way for him to present Othello with further “proof” of Desdemona’s infidelity following his account of Cassio’s sleep talking?

Answer 32

“This may help to thicken other proofs that do demonstrate thinly”

Question 33

In Act 4, Scene 1, how does Iago encourage the inducing of Othello’s seizure by further tormenting him?

Answer 33

Lie… with her, on her; what you will”

Question 34

In Act 4, Scene 1, how does Iago demonstrate his villainy by instructing Othello on how he should murder Desdemona?

Answer 34

“Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated”

Question 35

What is Iago’s final line in Act 5, Scene 2?

Answer 35

“Demand me nothing: what you know, you know”

Question 36

In Act 5, Scene 2, how does Iago attempt to silence Emilia? (2 Examples)

Answer 36

• “Go to, charm your tongue”
• “I charge you, get you home”

Question 37

In Act 3, Scene 3, how does Iago respond to Othello’s remark that “nature, erring from itself-“?

Answer 37

“… of her own clime, complexion and degree, whereto we see in all things nature tends”

Question 38

In Act 4, Scene 1, what does Iago say after having gulled Othello?

Answer 38

“Thus credulous fools are caught; and many worth and chaste dames even thus, all guiltless, must reproach”