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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. Who enters the argument scene?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Desdemona.
(c) Romeo.
(d) Constance.
2. Who enters Contance's office?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Gustav.
(c) Othello.
(d) The Chorus.
3. For what does Juliet yearn?
(a) The many suitors who wooed her before her marriage to Romeo.
(b) Romeo's brother.
(c) Constance.
(d) Her virginal days of being caught between desire and fulfillment.
4. What does Constance do during the handkerchief scene?
(a) Shoots both of the characters who are acting out the scene.
(b) Pulls the hankerchief out of Iago's pocket.
(c) Turns out the lights.
(d) Joins the scene.
5. What does Romeo tell Juliet he is going to do?
(a) Tell his father about Juliet.
(b) Challenge Tybalt to a duel.
(c) Spend the day with his friends.
(d) Divorce Juliet.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Desdemona's nickname for Constance?
2. What is the significance of the next day?
3. Who delivers a monologue?
4. Who does Desdemona ask to follow her?
5. What does Romeo do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information does the monologue deliver and what literary technique might this be?
2. What happens in the first vignette of the Dumbshow and from where do you think this scene is derived?
3. Is Constance successful in changing OTHELLO from a tragedy and what might this mean for the Gustav Manuscript?
4. What is the function of The Chorus?
5. What is the content of Constance's monologue at the end of this scene? Do you think she is setting herself up as a fool intentionally or unintentionally?
6. What is happening as Constance arrives in Verona and what does she do about it?
7. After Constance is interrupted a second time, she starts to read Romeo and Juliet; what happens as she reads?
8. Several times Constance bemoans the fact that there is no fool in either of Shakespeare's plays OTHELLO nor ROMEO AND JULIET. Who supplies the role of fool in this scene?
9. What happens to Constance at the end of this scene and what is her interpretation of it?
10. How does the Chorus appear and what is its first action?
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