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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 Desdemona do with the page from the Gustav Manuscript?
(a) Impales it on her sword and thrust it in Constance's face.
(b) Shows it to Othello.
(c) Reads it again.
(d) Burns it.

2. From what can gold be derived?
(a) Base metal.
(b) Vegetables
(c) The bank.
(d) A glass of tequila.

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

4. What does Othello realize?
(a) That Iago is right.
(b) That Othello must kill Constance.
(c) That Constance is better looking than Desdemona.
(d) That he's been duped.

5. Who lies dead in the second vignette?
(a) Desdemona.
(b) Gustav.
(c) Romeo.
(d) Othello.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has fled entirely?

2. How is the person on the phone acting emotionally?

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

4. What does Desdemona urge Constance to do?

5. In the first vignette, who murders Desdemona?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Is Constance successful in changing OTHELLO from a tragedy and what might this mean for the Gustav Manuscript?

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

5. What is the function of The Chorus?

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

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

8. What mistake does Romeo make, and then what does Constance do?

9. After Constance is interrupted a second time, she starts to read Romeo and Juliet; what happens as she reads?

10. What is the content of Constance's monologue at the end of this scene? Do you think she is setting herself up as a fool intentionally or unintentionally?

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