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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 Desdemona do?
(a) Addresses Romeo.
(b) Hits Romeo with a vase.
(c) Calls for Othello.
(d) Pushes Romeo off the balcony.

2. Who spies the person climbing the balcony?
(a) Iago.
(b) Tybalt.
(c) Romeo.
(d) Desdemona.

3. What do Constance and Juliet do?
(a) They both slap Romeo.
(b) Have a mock swordfight.
(c) Dance.
(d) Go off to gossip about the men there.

4. Who becomes enamored of Constance and competes with Romeo for her attention?
(a) Professor Night.
(b) Gustav.
(c) Tybalt.
(d) Juliet.

5. What does the person call Constance?
(a) An angel.
(b) A thief.
(c) An imposter.
(d) A hermaphrodite and a villain.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the two women embrace, what does Constance feel?

2. What are the scrolls?

3. Who comes through the vortex created by a page from the manuscript?

4. Who is unsuccessfully disguised in a mouse mask?

5. Who is disgusted?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe what happens when Desdemona and Juliet arrive at the crypt and stand near Constance.

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

8. What is Romeo's response to Desdemona, and what does this response say about Romeo's personality?

9. What does Constance learn about the scrolls and then decide to do?

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

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