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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Romeo do?
(a) Hugs Constance.
(b) Falls flat on his face.
(c) Asks the priest for forgiveness.
(d) Helps the nun with her packages.

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

4. What is Desdemona's nickname for Constance?
(a) Hero.
(b) Connie.
(c) Con.
(d) Stanzi.

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

6. Of what does Desdemona say Constance is an archetype?
(a) Of hope.
(b) Of beauty.
(c) Of the angel Gabriel.
(d) Of an oracular woman.

7. What does Juliet do when Nurse reminds her of the next day?
(a) She bursts into tears.
(b) She starts chattering excitedly.
(c) She tells Nurse to be quiet.
(d) She says she is going to go to sleep for twenty years.

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

9. What does the Chorus imply about Constance's mind?
(a) That it is crazy.
(b) That it is brilliant.
(c) That it has disappeared.
(d) That it is divided.

10. Where is Desdemona murdered?
(a) In the shower.
(b) In the garden.
(c) In her bedchamber.
(d) In the kitchen.

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

12. What does Othello make Iago do?
(a) Confess his sins to a priest.
(b) Slop out the privy.
(c) Kill himself.
(d) Apologize to Desdemona.

13. Where is the person lying dead in the second vignette?
(a) On the riverbank.
(b) In a crypt.
(c) In a funeral home.
(d) In the park.

14. When she begins to speak in perfect blank verse, what does Constance wonder?
(a) If she is Keats reincarnated.
(b) If she is crazy.
(c) If a student has spiked her beer with LSD.
(d) If she is more of a genius than she realized.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Constance reads the page from the manuscript?

2. What does Othello offer Constance?

3. What book does Constance open?

4. What three men act out a fight?

5. What does the person who mourns do?

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