Friday, May 3, 2013

Friday, May 3, 2013.

Periods 1 - 3

1.  Vocabulary Quiz Less. 4 "Art and Music"

2.  The Tragedy of Othello  Review for ACTS IV and V TEST on Monday, 5/6.

Periods 5 & 7

1.  Vocabulary Quiz Less. 27

2.  The Tragedy of Othello:  Review for ACTS IV and V TEST on Monday, 5/6.  Do not forget to complete ACT V questions + CP quotes.


If you were absent, here is the review for the test on Monday.  Bring it completed to class.

The Tragedy of Othello Acts IV and V  Review

 

1.   The setting of Acts IV and V is _______________________.

 

2.       Othello’s reaction at Iago’s description to him of Desdemona’s adultery is

 

 

3.       When Cassio and Iago are talking secretively about Bianca, Othello thinks Cassio is really talking about his _____________________________________________________.

 

4.       Othello loses ________________ of himself when he ___________________ Desdemona and calls her a “______________” for no reason.  Desdemona’s answer to Othello’s anger is to say, 

 

“ _____________________________________________.” 

 

5.       Lodovico  is shocked at Othello’s behavior and says, “My lord, this would not be ___________________________ in Venice./ Though I should  ___________________. ‘Tis very much,/Make her amends; she weeps.” IV.1.242-244 (lines).  [pages 214 and 216 in text].

6.       Othello says, “O devil, devil!/ If that the _________ could teem with woman’s tears, /Each drop she falls would prove a _________________./ Out of my sight!”

7.       We know that Othello has lost his reputation as a gentleman when Lodovico tells Iago, “ “ I am ___________________ that I am ________________in him.”

8.       When Emilia tells Desdemona and Iago that “I will be __________if some ___________   _______________,/Some busy and insinuating rogue,/ some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office (on Othello’s good side) / Have not devis’d this ________________.  I will be hang’d else.”  Emilia is unknowingly talking about her ________________, ______________.  This is called __________________________ irony because we know who has caused all the chaos,  but Emilia does not.

9.       To show her sadness, Desdemona sings a sad song called “ ________________.”

10.    On the night of her death, Desdemona asks Emilia to ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

most likely because _________________________________________________.

 

11.. Iago tells Roderigo that Othello is being sent to _________________________.

 

  1. Iago tells Roderigo that it is necessary to kill ____________________ because if this man is not in Cyprus to take command, then _____________________ cannot leave, taking the beautiful _____________________ with him.
  2. Cassio dines with __________________ the night he is stabbed.
  3. Iago tells Othello not to _________________ Desdemona, but to ________________________________________________.  This is a better way to kill  her.
  4. Emilia tells Othello that she will bet her ___________that Desdemona is faithful to him.  She states:  “ I durst, my lord, to ______________ she is ____________;

/Lay down my _______________at stake.”

 

  1. Roderigo confronts Cassio with a sword, but while they are sword-fighting, ___________________comes from behind and wounds Cassio in _______    _________.
  2. Othello uses two metaphors for Desdemona before he kills her:   Othello compares Desdemona to the light of a  ________________and a ____________from a rosebush.

 

  1. When Othello enters the bedroom, he justifies his murderous actions with “ It is the ____________________, it is the  ___________________, my soul; /Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars,/ It is the  ________________.Yet I’ll not shed her ____________, /Nor scar that __________________ _______________ of hers than snow, /…Yet she must ____________, else she’ll _____________ more ___________.”

 

  1. If Othello states that the murder will not be bloody, then we can assume that Othello will kill Desdemona by _____________________________.

 

  1. Before Othello kills Desdemona, he _____________  her.

 

  1. Desdemona begs Othello for mercy when she says, “Kill me _____________, let me live ______________________!”  Desdemona also begs Othello to let her say just ____  __________.
  2. Othello actually _________________ Desdemona, who instead of blaming him when Emilia asks who has done her harm, says, “Nobody; I _________________. Farewell! _______________________________________________O, farewell.”
  3. Graziano reports the death of ________________________ back in Venice.
  4. Emilia is killed by ___________________, her own ________________.

 

  1. Othello _____________________________ after he finds out the truth about Iago’s lies and Desdemona’s innocence.