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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 three men act out a fight?
(a) Tybalt, Mercutio, and Romeo.
(b) Tybalt, Gustav, and Othello.
(c) The Professor, Othello and Tybalt.
(d) Gustav, Othello and Romeo.

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

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

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

5. Which battle of OTHELLO continues offstage?
(a) Act 1, Scene 3.
(b) Act 3, Scene 3.
(c) Act 3, Scene 1.
(d) Act 1, Scene 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Desdemona do when she hears the fray developing offstage?

2. What does Juliet do when Nurse reminds her of the next day?

3. How are the vignettes displayed?

4. Where is Desdemona murdered?

5. What does Constance do during the handkerchief scene?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. After Constance is interrupted a second time, she starts to read Romeo and Juliet; what happens as she reads?

7. What mistake does Romeo make, and then what does Constance do?

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

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

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

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