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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Chorus do before exiting?
(a) Sings a poem.
(b) Stubs out the cigarette.
(c) Bows.
(d) Burns the Gustave manuscript.

2. What can a fool do to a tragedy?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Make it even more tragic.
(c) Make it a banal comedy.
(d) Make it a mockery of real literature.

3. What causes gold to be derived?
(a) The Philosopher's Stone.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A complex series of chemical steps.
(d) Prayer.

4. At what does Iago say Constance is a master?
(a) Chess.
(b) Swords.
(c) Billiards.
(d) Cards.

5. What happens when Constance reads the page from the manuscript?
(a) She cries.
(b) She disappears.
(c) She faints.
(d) She rips it into shreds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Othello offer Constance?

2. As Constance writes, what does she do simultaneously?

3. In the first vignette, who murders Desdemona?

4. Why does Constance think Romeo and Othello are not tragic figures?

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

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