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

3. Who repeats the prior rendition of the handkerchief scene?
(a) Othello and Desdemona.
(b) Constance and Iago.
(c) Romeo and Iago.
(d) Iago and Othello.

4. What does the person who mourns do?
(a) Burns the dead person on a pyre.
(b) Goes after the murderer.
(c) Calls the police.
(d) Commits suicide.

5. By whom is Constance interrupted?
(a) A student.
(b) Her major professor.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Gustav.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is engaged in a mock swordfight?

2. What is Romeo really going to do?

3. How does the character enter the office?

4. How does Constance respond to Romeo's request?

5. What has fled entirely?

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 first vignette of the Dumbshow and from where do you think this scene is derived?

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

4. What is the function of The Chorus?

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

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

8. Why do you think Act 1 is titled "The Dumbshow"?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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