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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What will heal Constance's mind?
(a) The counseling sessions she is having.
(b) The action of the Gustav manuscript.
(c) A good educatioin.
(d) Brain surgery.

3. What is Romeo really going to do?
(a) Go to the opera with a friend.
(b) Kill himself.
(c) Look for Constance whom Romeo thinks is a boy.
(d) Go ask Juliet's father for permission to marry Juliet officially.

4. About what does Constance wonder?
(a) Whether Gustav was right in his manuscript.
(b) Whether Desdemona's murder is inevitable.
(c) If she will finish her dissertation in time.
(d) Whether she would have killed herself like Juliet.

5. When she begins to speak in perfect blank verse, what does Constance wonder?
(a) If a student has spiked her beer with LSD.
(b) If she is more of a genius than she realized.
(c) If she is Keats reincarnated.
(d) If she is crazy.

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

7. How many vignettes comprise The Dumbshow?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

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

9. Where do Romeo and Juliet awaken?
(a) In an alleyway.
(b) In London.
(c) In Romeo's crypt.
(d) In their private room.

10. What does Nurse tell Juliet to do?
(a) Kill herself if she's unhappy.
(b) Flirt with other men but come home to Romeo for satisfaction.
(c) Stay faithful in mind as well as body.
(d) Go to her father and say that Romeo forced her.

11. Who does Desdemona ask to follow her?
(a) Iago.
(b) Constance.
(c) Othello.
(d) Gustav.

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

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

14. What does the Chorus call the Gustav Manuscript?
(a) Contance's Philosopher's Stone.
(b) A piece of rubbish.
(c) A farce.
(d) A brilliant, though misguided, work.

15. In what country is Verona?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What saddens Juliet?

2. How are the vignettes displayed?

3. What is Desdemona's nickname for Constance?

4. Of what does Desdemona say Constance is an archetype?

5. At what does Iago say Constance is a master?

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