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

2. What does the Chorus lay on Constance's desk?
(a) A gold ingot.
(b) A piece of fool's gold.
(c) A book on editing.
(d) The Gustav Manuscript.

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

4. How many vignettes comprise The Dumbshow?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

5. In what country is Verona?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first vignette, who murders Desdemona?

2. What does Romeo want to take with him?

3. From what can gold be derived?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the scene between Juliet and her nurse--do you think the nurse is wise?

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

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

5. What happens when Iago and Othella reenact their fight scene?

6. How does the Chorus appear and what is its first action?

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

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

9. What is the function of The Chorus?

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

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