Othello Study Guide Questions Act V

Othello

Study Guide Act V

Othello Short Answer Study Questions

Act V

1. How would Iago gain from Roderigo's death? Cassio's?

2. What happened when Cassio and Roderigo fought?

3. What did Iago do after he wounded Cassio?

4. How was Desdemona faithful to Othello to the end?

5. What was Emilia's reaction when Othello told her that Iago had revealed Desdemona's affair with Cassio to him?

6. Who told the truth about Iago?

7. What happened to Othello, Iago and Cassio in the end?

Othello - Multiple Choice Study/Quiz Questions

Act V

8. True or False: If Iago would die, Roderigo would have a clear path to Desdemona.

A. True

B. False

9. True or False: If Cassio would die, Iago's lies to Othello would be safe.

A. True

B. False

10. What happened when Cassio and Roderigo fought?

A. Roderigo was wounded by Cassio. Cassio was wounded from behind by Iago.

B. They killed each other.

C. Iago wounded Roderigo and accidentally killed Cassio.

D. Cassio wounded Roderigo. Roderigo wounded Cassio.

11. What did Iago do after the battle?

A. He left but returned a few minutes later to "help" Cassio finish off Roderigo.

B. He ran away and told Othello what had happened.

C. He immediately sent for the guards and positioned himself so that he would not be suspected in the fight.

D. He laughed and loudly proclaimed victory for himself.

12. How was Desdemona faithful to Othello to the end?

A. She held on to his handkerchief and professed her love for him.

B. She offered to go to confession, do penance, and anything else Othello asked of her.

C. She cried and said she forgave him.

D. She did not tell Emilia that Othello was the one who had smothered her.

13. What was Emilia's reaction when Othello told her that Iago had revealed Desdemona's affair with Cassio?

A. She said she had suspected it all along. She was glad it had finally come out in the open.

B. She covered her ears and refused to listen.

C. She was shocked and amazed. All along she thought the tale had been a lie contrived

by some awful person; never dreaming that Iago was responsible.

D. Although she publicly supported her husband, she was furious with him. She secretly

made plans to kill him to revenge Desdemona's death.

14. True or False: Iago's conscience bothered him so much that he finally confessed. Emilia was so overcome with grief that she died of a broken heart.

A. True

B. False

15. What happened to Othello?

A. He remained in his position, remarried, and lived happily.

B. He killed himself.

C. He returned to his native country, prepared an army, and attacked Venice.

D. He lost his mind and wandered around the streets. People took pity on him and fed and protected him.

16. What happened to Iago?

A. He killed himself.

B. He fled the country and was never heard from again.

C. He was stabbed and imprisoned.

D. He confessed and spent the rest of his life in a contemplative monastery, doing penance.

17. What happened to Cassio?

A. He became the Lord Governor.

B. He took a commission in another part of the country.

C. He went insane from grief and finally starved to death.

D. He married Bianca and lived a prosperous life as a private citizen.

VOCABULARY - Othello : Act V

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentences. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think sentence means. 

1. Wear thy good rapier barde, and put it home. Quick, quick, fear nothing, I'll be at thy elbow.  It makes us, or it mars us. Think on that, And fix most firm thy resolution.

2. There stand I in much peril.

3. Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.

4. Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!

5. I would not have thee linger in thy pain.

6. If he say so, may his pernicious soul Rot half a grain a day!

7. And she did gratify his amorous works . . . .

8. That handkerchief thou speak'st of I found by fortune and did give my husband, For often with a solemn earnestness, More than indeed belonged to such a trifle, He begged of me to steal it.

9. Do you go back dismayed?

10. Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice.

II. Determining the Meaning - Match the words to their dictionary definitions.

____ 1. mars                         A. damages; marks

____ 2. peril                         B. to be slow in learning

____ 3. anon                         C. reward; indulge; satisfy

____ 4. fie                         D. spite; ill-will

____ 5. linger                         E. something of little importance or value

____ 6. pernicious             F. used to express distaste or disapproval

____ 7. gratify             G. danger

____ 8. trifle                         H. having lost courage

____ 9. dismayed             I. deadly; destructive

____ 10. malice             J. soon