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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 has written the scrolls?
(a) Romeo's father.
(b) Professor Night.
(c) Iago.
(d) Juliet's father.

2. Who is unsuccessfully disguised in a mouse mask?
(a) Mercutio.
(b) Iago.
(c) Constance.
(d) Tybalt.

3. What does Desdemona try to do?
(a) Seduce Juliet.
(b) Kill herself.
(c) Kill Juliet.
(d) Kill Constance.

4. What does the person want?
(a) Answers.
(b) Money.
(c) Satisfaction.
(d) Nothing.

5. What is Romeo's response?
(a) To run to find Juliet.
(b) To fall in love with Desdemona.
(c) To challenge Desdemona to a swordfight.
(d) To jump off the balcony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Constance go to find?

2. What does the person have that Constance see?

3. Who interrupts the swordplay between Constance and Tybalt?

4. How is Juliet dressed while standing below Constance's balcony?

5. Who does Desdemona think Romeo is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How often has Juliet changed her willingness for different sexual experiences? What does this say about Juliet?

3. 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?

4. There are two different actions by characters that strongly suggest a theme of homosexuality; what are those actions? Do you think either of the characters are actually homosexual?

5. How are the three women, Desdemona, Juliet, and Constance, different and what is the same about them?

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

7. What is Juliet's response to learning of Constance's true gender?

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

9. The ideal of females, especially upper-class females during the time of the setting of Romeo and Juliet is that woman know nothing about sex and are virginal until marriage and then "endure" their husband's needs. Does Juliet seem to fit this description?

10. What are Tybalt's last actions before he is no longer seen?

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