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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Desdemona murdered?
(a) Suffocation.
(b) Gunshot.
(c) Knife across the neck.
(d) Hanging.

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

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

4. Who lies dead in the second vignette?
(a) Desdemona.
(b) Othello.
(c) Gustav.
(d) Romeo.

5. What does the Chorus call the Gustav Manuscript?
(a) A farce.
(b) A brilliant, though misguided, work.
(c) Contance's Philosopher's Stone.
(d) A piece of rubbish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who mourns a death in the second vignette?

2. Who enters the stage as Constance is reading?

3. In the first vignette, who murders Desdemona?

4. Where is the person lying dead in the second vignette?

5. Who delivers a monologue?

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