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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Constance learn from the character that interrupts her singing?

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

3. What does the person have that Constance see?

4. What does Juliet do while Romeo is searching?

5. What does Constance go to find?

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What is the irony of the scene where Juliet stands beneath Constance's balcony and woos her?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Homosexuality is a prominent theme in the Scenes that take place in Verona. Answer the following questions in a well-developed essay using examples from the book as well as personal experience:

1. Do you believe any of the characters in this play are actually homosexual? Who? Why do you believe so? If not, why not? Support your statements with specific detail from the text.

2. Do you believe this play is homophobic or accepting of homosexuality? Explain your statements with specific examples.

3. Would it make any difference as to how you interpret the homosexual theme if you knew that the author is a publicly self-proclaimed lesbian? How would that change the way you interpreted the homosexual overtones?

Essay Topic 2

One dramatic technique that opens and closes GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA is that of the Chorus. Answer the following questions in a well-developed essay using examples from the book as well as personal experience:

1. Research the use of the Chorus both in Greek plays and Shakespeare's plays and compare the two uses.

2. Compare the use of the Chorus in GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA with how it is used in both Shakespeare's and Greek plays.

3. Do you think the Chorus adds or detracts from the play as a whole? Explain with examples.

Essay Topic 3

In Act 3, Scene 1, Constance delivers a monologue, which is a dramatic devise. Answer the following questions in a well-developed essay using examples from the book as well as personal experience:

1. What is a monologue? Why would a playwright have a character deliver a monologue? Do you think monologues keep the audience attention as well as dialogue?

2. How many monologues are there in GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA? What is the purpose of two of those monologues? Are they effective?

3. If you were going to rewrite one of the longer monologues in GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA into dialogue, would you be able to impart as much information as in a monologue? Give an example of a monologue and what information in the monologue would be difficult to reveal in dialogue.

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