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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Constance writes, what does she do simultaneously?
(a) Listens to music with her headset.
(b) Chews gum.
(c) Reads aloud.
(d) Exercises her biceps.

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

3. How are the vignettes displayed?
(a) In a peepshow.
(b) Without speech.
(c) On a pinup board.
(d) On a slideshow.

4. What is lacking in the plays OTHELLO and ROMEO AND JULIET?
(a) A motive.
(b) A protagonist.
(c) A fool.
(d) A chorus.

5. By whom is Constance interrupted?
(a) Her boyfriend.
(b) A student.
(c) Gustav.
(d) Her major professor.

6. Who comes into see Juliet after Romeo is gone?
(a) Juliet's nurse.
(b) Constance.
(c) Mercutio.
(d) Tybalt.

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

8. In what does Constance intervene?
(a) An argument between Romeo and Juliet.
(b) In Juliet killing herself.
(c) An argument developing between Tybalt and Mercutio.
(d) In Romeo killing himself.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Why does Constance think Romeo and Othello are not tragic figures?
(a) Because their plight could have been avoided.
(b) Because they are both from France.
(c) Because they are wealthy.
(d) Because they are men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Romeo and Juliet awaken?

2. When Desdemona and Constance talk, what happens?

3. Who mourns a death in the second vignette?

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

5. In what country is Verona?

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