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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 Romeo ask?
(a) For them to use pistols instead of swords.
(b) For them to stop fighting.
(c) For Constance to allow him to duel Tybalt.
(d) What time it is.

2. What does Constance do with a cigarette butt she sees on the floor?
(a) Throws it over the balustrade.
(b) Stomps on it to put it out.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Smokes it.

3. What does Juliet want first?
(a) Answers.
(b) A promise.
(c) A kiss.
(d) Money.

4. How is Juliet dressed while standing below Constance's balcony?
(a) In a nightgown.
(b) In a Ninja suit.
(c) In her ball gown.
(d) In Romeo's clothing.

5. Who does Desdemona think Romeo is?
(a) Iago.
(b) Constance.
(c) Juliet.
(d) Tybalt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Constance pin to the ground?

2. What does Juliet brush aside as nonsense?

3. What does Constance go to find?

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

5. Who is unsuccessfully disguised in a mouse mask?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Desdemona's response to Romeo revelation that he is a man? Do you think the Desdemona of Shakespeare's tragedy, Othello, would have said something like this?

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

4. What reason do Juliet and Desdemona give for being flat characters? Do you agree with the two women's assessment?

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

6. What does Juliet theorize is Constance's predication towards homosexuality? Do you agree?

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

8. 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?

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

10. Who does Desdemona spot and what does she do?

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