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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 do Tybalt and Mercutio suggest to Romeo?
(a) A marriage proposal be made.
(b) That Romeo has too many true loves already.
(c) That Romeo is not allowed to marry again.
(d) A quick trip to the public baths.

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

3. Who does Constance resent playing?
(a) The fool.
(b) Always the bridegroom, never the bride.
(c) The mediator.
(d) Herself.

4. What does Othello make Iago do?
(a) Kill himself.
(b) Confess his sins to a priest.
(c) Slop out the privy.
(d) Apologize to Desdemona.

5. What happens when Constance reads the page from the manuscript?
(a) She rips it into shreds.
(b) She cries.
(c) She faints.
(d) She disappears.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Romeo tell Juliet he is going to do?

2. What is Romeo really going to do?

3. When Desdemona and Constance talk, what happens?

4. How does the character enter the office?

5. Why does Constance think Romeo and Othello are not tragic figures?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the first vignette of the Dumbshow and from where do you think this scene is derived?

2. What does the Chorus do after delivering the monologue?

3. What information does the monologue deliver and what literary technique might this be?

4. Describe the scene between Juliet and her nurse--do you think the nurse is wise?

5. What is happening as Constance arrives in Verona and what does she do about it?

6. How does the Chorus appear and what is its first action?

7. 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?

8. How do Othello and Desdemona first react to Constance?

9. What effect does Constance's dramatic appearance in the middle of the argument between Mercutio and Romeo?

10. Why do you think Act 1 is titled "The Dumbshow"?

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