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Review Questions: Othello, Act III (pages 1070-1088).

Act III, Scene 1

1. Give an example of dramatic irony on page 1071.

2. Who is Emilia? What arrangements does she make for Cassio?

Act III, Scene 3

3. What is ironic about Emilia’s comments at the beginning of this scene?

4. What does Desdemona promise Cassio?

5. On page 1073, how does Iago begin planting the first seeds of jealousy in Othello?

6. What does Othello agree to do for Desdemona?

7. After Desdemona leaves, how does Iago begin anew to raise Othello’s suspicions about

Cassio?

8. When Iago raises the issue of jealousy on page 1075, what does Othello say?

9. How does Iago then respond?

10. Why does Iago say, “I see this hath a little dashed your spirits,” and then twice, “I (do) see you are moved”?

11. When Iago leaves at line 241, what do Othello’s next remarks reveal about his thoughts?

12. After Iago finally departs, what does Othello’s soliloquy show about his suspicions?

13. What does Emilia do after Othello and Desdemona depart? What does her brief soliloquy reveal about Iago?

14. What does Iago reveal in his brief soliloquy on page 1080?

15. What attitude does Othello take upon returning to Iago on page 1080?

16. How does Othello threaten Iago? How does Iago respond?

17. What are two specific pieces of evidence that Iago cites to cast suspicion on Cassio?

18. What does Othello command Iago to do at the end of Scene 3?

Act III, Scene 4

19. Why does Othello insist that Desdemona present the handkerchief?

20. What are two examples of dramatic irony in Desdemona and Emilia’s conversation on

page 1087?

21. What important information is revealed in Cassio and Bianca’s conversation that ends

Scene 4?

Review Questions: Othello, Act IV (pages 1089-1103).

Act IV, Scene 1

1. What does Iago try to convince Othello of at the beginning of this scene?

2. What does Othello believe about the content of the conversation between Iago and Cassio?

3. What does Othello resolve to do after Cassio departs? How will he do so?

4. What does the letter command Othello to do?

5. What shocks Lodovico about Othello’s behavior?

6. What does Iago tell Lodovico about Othello’s behavior?

Act IV, Scene 2

7. What does Othello believe after his brief conversation with Emilia?

8. What is ironic about Emilia’s comments on page 1099? To what earlier suspicion of Iago’s do lines 145-147 refer to?

9. In Iago’s conversation with Roderigo, what does the reader learn about Iago’s manipulation of Roderigo?

10. At the end of Scene 2, what plan does Iago reveal to Roderigo?

Act IV, Scene 3

11. What contrasting views of marital fidelity are revealed by Desdemona and by Emilia?