3. What does Constance do with the Gustav manuscript?
(a) Puts it in the safe.
(b) Throws it in the trash.
(c) Carries it with her.
(d) Burns it.

4. How does the character enter the office?
(a) Through the side door.
(b) Down the fireplace.
(c) Through the window.
(d) Through the wall.

5. Upon whom does Constance wish ill?
(a) Professor Night.
(b) Desdemona.
(c) Othello.
(d) Iago.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Constance drink her beer?

2. How is Desdemona murdered?

3. Where do Romeo and Juliet awaken?

4. What does Othello make Iago do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens in the second vignette of the Dumbshow and from where do you think this scene is derived?

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

4. What is the function of The Chorus?

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

6. Several times Constance bemoans the fact that there is no fool in either of Shakespeare's plays OTHELLO nor ROMEO AND JULIET. Who supplies the role of fool in this scene?

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 the Chorus appear and what is its first action?

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

(see the answer keys)

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