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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. About what does Constance wonder?
(a) Whether Desdemona's murder is inevitable.
(b) Whether Gustav was right in his manuscript.
(c) If she will finish her dissertation in time.
(d) Whether she would have killed herself like Juliet.

4. Of what does Iago convince Desdemona?
(a) That Iago wants to marry Desdemona.
(b) That Othello is faithful to Desdemona.
(c) That Constance does not speak like a high-born lady.
(d) That Constance is Othello's lover.

5. What does Iago give Desdemona as proof?
(a) The written transcript of a conversation Iago has with Othello.
(b) A handwritten confession by Constance.
(c) A page from the Gustav manuscript.
(d) A photo of Constance and Othello together in bed.

6. Who enters the stage as Constance is reading?
(a) Romeo.
(b) No one.
(c) Iago and Othello.
(d) Gustav.

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

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

9. What does the person who mourns do?
(a) Burns the dead person on a pyre.
(b) Commits suicide.
(c) Goes after the murderer.
(d) Calls the police.

10. What does Nurse tell Juliet to do?
(a) Kill herself if she's unhappy.
(b) Flirt with other men but come home to Romeo for satisfaction.
(c) Go to her father and say that Romeo forced her.
(d) Stay faithful in mind as well as body.

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

12. In the third vignette, who is on the phone in an office?
(a) No one.
(b) Constance.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Gustav.

13. Where do Romeo and Juliet awaken?
(a) In an alleyway.
(b) In Romeo's crypt.
(c) In London.
(d) In their private room.

14. Out of what can a unified soul be constructed?
(a) Paper.
(b) Animal flesh.
(c) Shards.
(d) Cement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is arguing at the opening of this scene?

2. Who does Constance resent playing?

3. What do Tybalt and Mercutio suggest to Romeo?

4. Who mourns a death in the second vignette?

5. From what can gold be derived?

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