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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. Who is arguing at the opening of this scene?
(a) Desdemona and Constance.
(b) Tybalt and Constance.
(c) Romeo, Tybalt, and Mercutio.
(d) Iago and Othello.

2. What does Juliet do when Nurse reminds her of the next day?
(a) She tells Nurse to be quiet.
(b) She says she is going to go to sleep for twenty years.
(c) She starts chattering excitedly.
(d) She bursts into tears.

3. In what is Constance clad?
(a) She is naked.
(b) Long underwear.
(c) A trench coat.
(d) A mink stole.

4. What has fled entirely?
(a) Their passion.
(b) Their servants.
(c) The city of Verona to avoid the plague.
(d) Their band of loyal friends.

5. What does Desdemona urge Constance to do?
(a) To interrupt every tragedy she sees being staged.
(b) To stalk the mean Professor.
(c) To study violence and become a warrior.
(d) To marry Iago.

Short Answer Questions

1. By whom is Constance interrupted?

2. Upon whom does Constance wish ill?

3. What does Othello offer Constance?

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

5. As Constance writes, what does she do simultaneously?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens as Constance is reading OTHELLO from her complete works of Shakespeare?

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. Describe the interaction between Desdemona and Constance after Othello has dragged Iago off the stage.

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

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

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