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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Romeo tell Juliet he is going to do?
(a) Challenge Tybalt to a duel.
(b) Divorce Juliet.
(c) Spend the day with his friends.
(d) Tell his father about Juliet.

2. What word that Constance speaks does Desdemona start using?
(a) Humbug.
(b) Bullshit.
(c) Darn.
(d) Balls.

3. What is Constance called at the university?
(a) The heroine.
(b) The intellect.
(c) The dog.
(d) The mouse.

4. When Desdemona and Constance talk, what happens?
(a) Desdemona cries while Constance holds her.
(b) Constance stabs Desdemona with a sword.
(c) Desdemona leaves in a rage.
(d) Desdemona realizes that Iago was lying.

5. Who does Constance resent playing?
(a) The fool.
(b) Always the bridegroom, never the bride.
(c) Herself.
(d) The mediator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Desdemona do with the page from the Gustav Manuscript?

2. How does Desdemona respond to learning of Constance's nickname?

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

4. Who lies dead in the second vignette?

5. What is the setting at the opening of this scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Constance at the end of this scene and what is her interpretation of it?

2. What is happening as Constance arrives in Verona and what does she do about it?

3. What effect does Constance's dramatic appearance in the middle of the argument between Mercutio and Romeo?

4. What happens in the scene with the pet turtle and how is this symbolic of Romeo and Juliet's relationship?

5. How does Othello punish Iago and is the punishment fitting?

6. What is the effect of Nurse's blank verse musings?

7. What happens in the third vignette of the Dumbshow?

8. How does the opening scene of Act 3, Scene 2 demonstrates the change in Romeo and Juliet's relationship?

9. How does Othello reward Constance and how does his reward symbolically represent Constance's real life?

10. How do Othello and Desdemona first react to Constance?

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