Othello Unit Test Review
The test will consist of 50 multiple choice and matching questions that cover mainly Acts III – V of Othello, but you
must be familiar with the entire play.
Review your Acts I-II Study Guide and your Acts III-V Study Guide (available on my website).
In addition to the quotes on your study guide, you must be familiar with the meaning and importance of the
following quotes:
 Act III, Scene 3, Line 90: “And when I love thee not/ Chaos is come again” – Othello
 Act III, Scene 3, Lines 195-196: “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster that doth mock / the
meat it feeds on.” – Iago
 Act III, Scene 4, Lines 180-183: “But jealous souls will not be answered so. / They are not ever jealous for the cause,
/ But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself.” – Emilia
 Act III, scene 3, Lines 340-343: “I’ll have the work ta’en out / And give’t Iago. What he will do with it / Heaven
knows, not I. / I nothing but to please his fantasy.” – Emilia
 Act IV, Scene 1, Lines 49-50: “It is not / words that shakes me thus.” – Othello
 Act IV, Scene 1, Line 88: “O, thou art wise, ‘tis certain.” – Othello
 Act IV, Scene 2, Lines 77-80 : “O thou weed,/ Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet / That the sense aches at
thee, would thou hadst ne’er been born!” – Othello
 Act IV, Scene 3, Lines 78-79: “ The world’s a huge thing. It is a great price / for a small vice.” – Emilia
 Act V, Scene 1, Lines 12-15: “Now, whether he kill Cassio, / Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, / Every way
makes my gain.” – Iago
 Act V, Scene 2, Line 6-7: “Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men. / Put out the light, and then put out the
light.” – Othello
 Act V, Scene 2, Line 150: “A guiltless death I die.” – Desdemona
 Act V, Scene 2, Lines 402-404: “Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in malice. Then must
you speak / Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; / Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, / Perplexed in
the extreme.” – Othello
 Act V, Scene 2, Lines 420-421: “I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, / Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.” –
Othello
Be prepared to analyze:
 An image and apply it to Othello
 The theme of jealousy
 Desdemona’s handkerchief
 Othello’s ocular proof
 The Willow Song
 Characters, their relationships, their motivations, and their conflicts
 The plot
 Literary devices (irony, foreshadowing, motif, metaphor, symbolism, etc.)
 Critical perspectives (Cultural, Feminist, Marxist, Historical, Archetypal). Refer to the materials on my website under
“Literary Theories / Critical Perspectives.”