Desdemona

Question 1

Desdemona 1.1

Answer 1

‘An old black ram is/tupping your white ewe’ — Iago to brabantio

Question 2

Desdemona 1.3

Answer 2

‘The rites for which I love him are bereft me… let me go with him’

‘You are lord of all my duty, I am hither to your daughter. But here’s my husband’

Question 3

Desdemona 3.3

Answer 3

‘Whate’er you be, I am obedient’

‘Why do you speak so faintly? / are you not well?’

Question 4

Desdemona 3.4

Answer 4

‘I pray, talk me of Cassio’

‘My Lord is not my lord’

‘Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things,/ though great ones are their objects’

‘But now I find I had suborned the witness, and he’s indicted falsely’

Question 5

Desdemona 4.1

Answer 5

‘I have not deserved this’

‘I will not stay to offend you’

Question 6

Desdemona 4.2

Answer 6

‘Upon my knees, what doth your speech import? / I understand a fury in your words,/ but not the words’

‘Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?’

‘I am a child to chiding’

‘It is my wretched fortune’

‘His unkindness may defeat my life, / but never taint my love’

Question 7

Desdemona 4.3

Answer 7

‘Dost thou in conscience think that there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind?’

Question 8

Desdemona 5.2

Answer 8

‘Nobody. I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord.’