Question 1
In Shakespeare's Othello, what is the principal motive Iago gives in his soliloquies for destroying Othello?
Correct Answer:
Resentment at being passed over for promotion and suspicion that Othello has slept with Emilia
Question 2
Which object becomes the central piece of 'ocular proof' through which Iago convinces Othello of Desdemona's infidelity?
Correct Answer:
A handkerchief embroidered with strawberries
Question 3
F.R. Leavis's influential 1937 essay on Othello argued that the tragedy is principally caused by which factor?
Correct Answer:
A flaw in Othello himself: egotism and a self-dramatising imagination
Question 4
How does the language used about Othello in Act 1 by Iago, Roderigo and Brabantio most clearly characterise Venetian attitudes?
Correct Answer:
It dwells on bestial and racialised imagery ('old black ram', 'Barbary horse', 'thick-lips')
Question 5
In what verse form is the bulk of Othello, like Shakespeare's other tragedies, written?
Correct Answer:
Unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse)
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