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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon whom does Constance wish ill?
(a) Desdemona.
(b) Iago.
(c) Othello.
(d) Professor Night.

2. Who does Desdemona ask to follow her?
(a) Iago.
(b) Othello.
(c) Constance.
(d) Gustav.

3. What does Othello realize?
(a) That Constance is better looking than Desdemona.
(b) That Othello must kill Constance.
(c) That Iago is right.
(d) That he's been duped.

4. What does Desdemona do when she hears the fray developing offstage?
(a) Faints.
(b) Screams.
(c) Runs away from the noise.
(d) Runs towards the noise.

5. For what does Juliet yearn?
(a) Romeo's brother.
(b) Her virginal days of being caught between desire and fulfillment.
(c) The many suitors who wooed her before her marriage to Romeo.
(d) Constance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Romeo really going to do?

2. Who becomes enamored of Constance and competes with Romeo for her attention?

3. Of what does Desdemona say Constance is an archetype?

4. When she begins to speak in perfect blank verse, what does Constance wonder?

5. What is the significance of the next day?

(see the answer key)

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