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

2. What does Desdemona want Constance to do?
(a) Kill Othello.
(b) Return to Cyprus and get revenge against Iago.
(c) Respond to Juliet's cries.
(d) Go back to her true time and stay out of everyone's business.

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

4. What do Desdemona and Juliet say about themselves?
(a) That they are not well-rounded characters.
(b) That they are in love.
(c) That they think they will move to an island together.
(d) That they have both been wronged by men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives on the scene?

2. For what is Constance searching?

3. Who embraces and kisses Constance?

4. What saves Constance from being smothered?

5. Who spies the person climbing the balcony?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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