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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting at the opening of this scene?
(a) A public place in London.
(b) An Elysium in Rome.
(c) A public place in Verona.
(d) A chuch in Rome.

2. Who enters the argument scene?
(a) Desdemona.
(b) Constance.
(c) Juliet.
(d) Romeo.

3. Which battle of OTHELLO continues offstage?
(a) Act 3, Scene 1.
(b) Act 3, Scene 3.
(c) Act 1, Scene 2.
(d) Act 1, Scene 3.

4. How does Constance respond to Romeo's request?
(a) She asks for some time to think it over.
(b) She accepts.
(c) She declines.
(d) She faints.

5. What happens when Juliet and Romeo fight?
(a) He dulls his sword when he hits the wall with it.
(b) The turtle is torn in two.
(c) Romeo hits Juliet.
(d) He spills coffee on his books.

6. In the first vignette, who murders Desdemona?
(a) Othello.
(b) Romeo.
(c) Gustav.
(d) Flaubert.

7. What will heal Constance's mind?
(a) The counseling sessions she is having.
(b) A good educatioin.
(c) Brain surgery.
(d) The action of the Gustav manuscript.

8. What is Constance doing in her office?
(a) Talking on the phone.
(b) Eating lunch.
(c) Playing computer games.
(d) Writing her dissertation.

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

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

11. What does Constance do during the handkerchief scene?
(a) Joins the scene.
(b) Shoots both of the characters who are acting out the scene.
(c) Pulls the hankerchief out of Iago's pocket.
(d) Turns out the lights.

12. What is the significance of the next day?
(a) It is Juliet's fourteenth birthday.
(b) Romeo will lead an insurrection against Juliet's family.
(c) It is the day when Juliet is officially an adult.
(d) It is Romeo and Juliet's official wedding.

13. Who repeats the prior rendition of the handkerchief scene?
(a) Othello and Desdemona.
(b) Romeo and Iago.
(c) Constance and Iago.
(d) Iago and Othello.

14. What three men act out a fight?
(a) Tybalt, Gustav, and Othello.
(b) Gustav, Othello and Romeo.
(c) The Professor, Othello and Tybalt.
(d) Tybalt, Mercutio, and Romeo.

15. For what does Romeo mistake Constance?
(a) A boy.
(b) A nun.
(c) A priest.
(d) Juliet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the vignettes displayed?

2. Upon whom does Constance wish ill?

3. What book does Constance open?

4. In the third vignette, who is on the phone in an office?

5. What does Romeo tell Juliet he is going to do?

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