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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Constance do with the Gustav manuscript?
(a) Puts it in the safe.
(b) Carries it with her.
(c) Burns it.
(d) Throws it in the trash.

2. In the first vignette, who murders Desdemona?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Romeo.
(c) Othello.
(d) Gustav.

3. What does Romeo want to take with him?
(a) His books.
(b) Juliet.
(c) His sword.
(d) His pet turtle.

4. What does Romeo tell Juliet he is going to do?
(a) Challenge Tybalt to a duel.
(b) Divorce Juliet.
(c) Tell his father about Juliet.
(d) Spend the day with his friends.

5. Who is arguing at the opening of this scene?
(a) Tybalt and Constance.
(b) Desdemona and Constance.
(c) Romeo, Tybalt, and Mercutio.
(d) Iago and Othello.

6. How does Constance drink her beer?
(a) With peppermint snapps.
(b) On tap.
(c) Warm from a can.
(d) Ice cold from a bottle.

7. Who comes into see Juliet after Romeo is gone?
(a) Tybalt.
(b) Juliet's nurse.
(c) Constance.
(d) Mercutio.

8. Who delivers a monologue?
(a) Desdemona.
(b) Constance.
(c) Juliet.
(d) The Chorus.

9. What has fled entirely?
(a) Their servants.
(b) Their band of loyal friends.
(c) Their passion.
(d) The city of Verona to avoid the plague.

10. Who enters the argument scene?
(a) Constance.
(b) Desdemona.
(c) Juliet.
(d) Romeo.

11. By whom is Constance interrupted?
(a) A student.
(b) Gustav.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Her major professor.

12. How is the person on the phone acting emotionally?
(a) Despondent.
(b) Upset.
(c) Excited.
(d) Joyful.

13. What does the Chorus imply about Constance's mind?
(a) That it is brilliant.
(b) That it has disappeared.
(c) That it is divided.
(d) That it is crazy.

14. Of what does Iago convince Desdemona?
(a) That Othello is faithful to Desdemona.
(b) That Constance does not speak like a high-born lady.
(c) That Constance is Othello's lover.
(d) That Iago wants to marry Desdemona.

15. In the third vignette, who is on the phone in an office?
(a) No one.
(b) Constance.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Gustav.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Constance do during the handkerchief scene?

2. What causes gold to be derived?

3. In what does Constance intervene?

4. Who is engaged in a mock swordfight?

5. How many vignettes comprise The Dumbshow?

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