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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 Othello offer Constance?
(a) A job.
(b) Irrefutable evidence that Professor Night is bad.
(c) His brother in marriage.
(d) A diamond necklace.

2. Who does Desdemona ask to follow her?
(a) Gustav.
(b) Iago.
(c) Othello.
(d) Constance.

3. What is Desdemona's nickname for Constance?
(a) Connie.
(b) Con.
(c) Hero.
(d) Stanzi.

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

5. When she begins to speak in perfect blank verse, what does Constance wonder?
(a) If a student has spiked her beer with LSD.
(b) If she is Keats reincarnated.
(c) If she is more of a genius than she realized.
(d) If she is crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Desdemona respond to learning of Constance's nickname?

2. What kind of cheese does Constance eat?

3. Who tries to protect Desdemona from Iago?

4. In what does Constance intervene?

5. For what does Romeo mistake Constance?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Othello punish Iago and is the punishment fitting?

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

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

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

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

10. What is the function of The Chorus?

(see the answer keys)

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