AP Multiple Choice "Othello, Act I, Scene 3"

The word "thence" (lines 11 and 20) is best understood to mean

B) (away) from there

Which two lines come closest to stating the same idea?

B) Lines 32 and 40

In context, the word "passing" in line 33 has the meaning of

B) extremely, surpassingly

The lines "I would all my pilgrimage dilate, / Whereof by parcels she had something heard, / But not inventively" (lines 26-28) are best paraphrased as

C) I would tell her of my travels, which she had heard of in bits and pieces but not altogether

In the passage as a whole, Othello uses a rhetorical structure that

C) arranges details into a narrative to support a concluding statement of his central argument

The prevailing tone of the passage taken as a whole is best characterized as

C) confidently assertive and candid

The line in which the poet introduces NO variety into the passage's iambic rhythm is

C) line 22

The first section of the passage (lines 1-18) differs from the second section (lines 18-42) in all of the following EXCEPT

C) tone

In the context of the passage, both Desdemona and her father

D) press Othello to tell the stories of his adventures

From the passage it can reasonable be inferred that Othello has probably been accused of trying to win the hand of Desdemona by

D) using magic

According to lines 33-36, Desdemona's reaction to Othello's stories is that she

E) wished she herself could have been made such an adventurous and courageous person