Questions and CORRECT Answers
Othello - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The Moor of Venice, a well-respected general in the
Venetian army, husband to Desdemona.
Iago - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Othello's ancient, plots Othello's downfall by making him
think that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio.
Desdemona - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Othello's wife and daughter of Brabantio; dies at
the end of the play when Othello smothers her with a pillow.
Emilia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Desdemon's lady-in-waiting and wife of Iago; dies at
the end of the play when she realizes that she played a part in the death of Desdemona.
Roderigo - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A wealthy nobleman of Verona who is in love with
Desdemona and tries to court her even though she is married. Killed by Iago, whom he
trusted and helped throughout the play.
Brabantio - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Desdemona's father; We learn that he died at the end
of the play due to heartbreak from Desdemona's betrayal and marriage to Othello.
Montano - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A well-liked nobleman who gets stabbed by Cassio,
resulting in Othello firing Cassio from being his lieutenant.
Bianca - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A prostitute in Cypress who has fallen in love with
Cassio and gets angry when she finds another woman's handkerchief in Cassio's bedroom.
Lodovico - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A Venetian senator and cousin of Desdemona.
Arrives in Cyprus just in time to see Othello slap Desdemona and can't believe how much
Othello has changed. He is also the last person to speak in the play.
, Cassio - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Othello's lieutenant; loyal and honest to Othello; gets
drunk one night and fights Montano, resulting in Othello firing him; accused of having an
affair with Desdemona, but he never slept with her.
Iago - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who said this?
"Zounds, sir, you're robbed. For shame, put on your gown! / Your heart is burst. You have lost
half your soul."
Othello - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who said this?
"For know, Iago, / But that I love the gentle Desdemona, / I would not my unhouséd free
condition / Put into circumscription and confine / For the sea's worth."
Othello - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who said this?
"She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them. / This is
the only witchcraft I have used."
Iago - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who said this?
"It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will. Come, be a man! Drown thyself?
Drown cats and blind puppies."
Iago - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who said this?
"Come on, come on! You are pictures out of door, bells in your kitchens, saints in your
injuries, devils being offended, players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds."
Othello - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who said this?
"O my soul's joy! / If after every tempest come such calms, / May the winds blow till they
have wakened death..."
Iago - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who said this?
"But partly led to diet my revenge / For that I do suspect the lusty Moor / Hath leaped into
my seat..."
Cassio - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who said this?