Starter quiz
- In Shakespeare's 'Othello', which character dehumanises Othello at the beginning of the play?
- Desdemona
- Cassio
- Iago ✓
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- In 'Othello', what epithet do characters use to describe Othello that marks him out as an outsider?
- The General
- The Moor ✓
- The Foreigner
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- In 'Othello', what does Brabantio say that shows his stereotyping of Othello?
- ''she is abused, stolen....corrupted'' ✓
- ''My daughter! O, my daughter!''
- ''My particular grief Is of so floodgate and o’erbearing nature''
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- Which belief was held in Jacobean England about race?
- everyone was equal regardless of race
- darker skin was associated with moral impurity ✓
- lighter skin was associated with moral impurity
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- What happens to Othello in Act 3 Scene 3 of 'Othello' that suggests the play is at its peripeteia?
- He hits Desdemona
- He makes a plan to murder Iago
- He sails back to Venice
- He says that his race may be the reason that Desdemona has been 'unfaithful' ✓
- Consumed with jealousy, he enters a trance
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- How does Shakespeare subvert racial stereotypes in Jacobean England through 'Othello'?
- By introducing Othello as a noble Moor ✓
- By characterising Iago as the evil villain ✓
- By showing Othello to be animalistic
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