WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello Remember to support your ideas with details from the text.

1. (a)Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it: [Cyprus. A sea-port.] [Enter MONTANO, Governor of Cyprus, with two other GENTLEMEN.] Montano: What from the cape can you discern at sea? 1 Gentleman: Nothing at all; it is a high-wrought flood. I cannot 'twixt the heaven and the main Descry a sail. 5 Montano: Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land; A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements. If it ha ruffian'd so upon the sea, What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them, 10 Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this? 2 Gentleman: A segregation of the Turkish fleet. For do but stand upon the banning shore, The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds; The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous mane, 15 Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of th' ever-fired pole. I never did like molestation view On the enchafed flood. Montano: If that the Turkish fleet 20 Be not enshelter'd and embay'd, they are drown'd: It is impossible they bear it out. [Enter a third GENTLEMAN.] 3 Gentleman: News, lads! Your wars are done. The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turk That their designment halts. A noble ship of Venice Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance On most part of their fleet. 25 Montano: How! Is this true? 3 Gentleman: The ship is here put in, A Veronesa; Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come ashore: the Moor himself at sea, And is in full commission here for Cyprus. 30 Montano: I am glad on't; 'tis a worthy governor. 35 3 Gentleman: But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly And prays the Moor be safe; for they were parted With foul and violent tempest. Montano: Pray heaven he be; For I have serv'd him, and the man commands Like a full soldier. Let's to the sea-side, ho! As well to see the vessel that's come in As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and th' aerial blue An indistinct regard. 40 45 3 Gentleman: Come, let's do so; For every minute is expectancy Of more arrivance. [Enter CASSIO.] 50 Cassio: Thanks you, the valiant of this war-like isle, That so approve the Moor. O, let the heavens Give him defence against their elements, For I have lost him on a dangerous sea! Montano: Is he well shipp'd? 55 Cassio: His bark is stoutly timber'd, and his pilot Of very expert and approv'd allowance; Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death, Stand in bold cure. [Within: A sail, a sail, a sail!] 60 [from Act 2, Scene 1] In what ways does Shakespeare make this opening to Act 2 so dramatic?[25]
2. (b)What do you think makes Shakespeare's portrayal of Iago so fascinating?[25]