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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 27-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bloom say is the heart of "Antony and Cleopatra"?
(a) The battle between Rome and Egypt.
(b) The battle between love and politics.
(c) The battle between East and West.
(d) The battle between the sexes.

2. What does Bloom say makes Caesar fascinating?
(a) His power.
(b) His humility.
(c) His violence.
(d) His bombast.

3. How does Bloom characterize the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra?
(a) As a literary philosophy.
(b) As a political act.
(c) As a nihilistic act.
(d) As the summit of hopeless romanticism.

4. What kinds of interpretations of "Midsummer Night's Dream" does Bloom say he resents?
(a) Interpretations that treat the play as a political drama.
(b) Interpretations that over-sexualize the play.
(c) Interpretations that minimize the war of the sexes.
(d) Interpretations that turn the play into a dark spectacle.

5. What is Berowne's narcissism opposed by?
(a) Brute masculine force.
(b) Plotting and manipulations.
(c) The indifference of nature.
(d) Female intellect and humor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fluellen's comparison mean for Henry V?

2. What opera is based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?

3. To what later character does Bloom connect Brutus from "Julius Caesar"?

4. What are the relationships in "Love's Labor's Lost" motivated by?

5. According to Bloom, T. S. Eliot prefers "Coriolanus" to which other Shakespeare play?

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