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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 learn from the character that interrupts her singing?
(a) That she is the author and a fool.
(b) That the pond was only an illusion.
(c) That she will die that night.
(d) That she had been slipped some LSD in her drink.

2. What does Constance demand from Juliet?
(a) Sex.
(b) A glass of wine.
(c) A ticket to the opera.
(d) The name of the author.

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

4. What does Constance think is the Gustav Manuscript?
(a) The book she thought was a bible.
(b) The fool's hat.
(c) The graffiti on the wall.
(d) Some scrolls in a basket.

5. With whom is Constance awestruck?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Tybalt.
(c) Romeo.
(d) Professor Night.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Professor Night treat Constance?

2. What does Constance do with a cigarette butt she sees on the floor?

3. Who enters the scene next?

4. Where does Desdemona suggest that Romeo not travel?

5. What does Juliet try to do out of shame?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is it again intimated that Constance is playing the role of the Fool?

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

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

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

5. How is the ghost's appearance in the boneyard typical of Shakespearean tragedy?

6. 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?

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

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

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