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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 Nurse tell Juliet to do?
(a) Stay faithful in mind as well as body.
(b) Flirt with other men but come home to Romeo for satisfaction.
(c) Kill herself if she's unhappy.
(d) Go to her father and say that Romeo forced her.

2. How does Constance drink her beer?
(a) On tap.
(b) Ice cold from a bottle.
(c) Warm from a can.
(d) With peppermint snapps.

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

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

5. Who mourns a death in the second vignette?
(a) Desdemona.
(b) Othello.
(c) Romeo.
(d) Juliet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will heal Constance's mind?

2. What does Constance do during the handkerchief scene?

3. What three men act out a fight?

4. What does the Chorus lay on Constance's desk?

5. What is Desdemona's nickname for Constance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does the monologue deliver and what literary technique might this be?

2. What idea does Constance develop in writing her dissertation at the opening of this scene?

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

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

5. What does the Chorus do after delivering the monologue?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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