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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 Constance believe about the information she is given?
(a) That it is a riddle.
(b) That it is a lie.
(c) That it is just another means of torture.
(d) That it is the truth.

2. What does Tybalt carry away in triumph?
(a) Romeo.
(b) Constance's body.
(c) Desdemona.
(d) Juliet.

3. What separates Juliet and Constance's balconies?
(a) A junkyard.
(b) A rose garden.
(c) A pond.
(d) A boneyard.

4. Where is Constance at the opening of this scene?
(a) Back in her office in her real life.
(b) Her bedroom.
(c) The ballroom.
(d) Her personal balcony.

5. What does Juliet try to do out of shame?
(a) Seduce Constance.
(b) She is not ashamed.
(c) Divorce Romeo.
(d) Commit suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who embraces and kisses Constance?

2. How is Romeo dressed?

3. What does Romeo do after watching Constance dance?

4. After hearing Juliet moan over Constance, what does Desdemona wonder?

5. What is Tybalt's reaction to everyone else's behavior?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tybalt's reaction to Romeo and Juliet's fascination with Constance?

2. What is significant about several objects that appear in Constance's office in the "real" world and also in the fantasy world of Verona and Cyprus?

3. What do you think is the purpose of this very short scene?

4. How does cross dressing become a theme in this sexually-loaded scene?

5. For whom is Constance searching at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 3 and why is this ironic?

6. How many ways has Juliet considered or attempted suicide in this scene? Why do you think this is so?

7. How is Constance's return to her office with her head stuffed in a waste basket metaphorical?

8. Why does Constance pounce on a Servant walking by?

9. What does the purpose of this brief scene (Act 3, Scene 3) seem to be?

10. How does the author of this play satirize the real Romeo and Juliet fight scene?

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