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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bloom say writers began to write after Shakespeare?
(a) Characters who lived a world with modern weaponry.
(b) Characters with inner lives.
(c) Tragicomedies.
(d) History plays.

2. How does Bloom describe performances of "Titus Andronicus"?
(a) As alternatively over-done or undefined.
(b) As alternatively funny or horrifying.
(c) As alternatively melodramatic and gut-wrenching.
(d) As alternatively crisp or incoherent.

3. How does Bloom characterize Shakespeare's women?
(a) Less abstract than the men in their thinking.
(b) More cunning yet less direct than the men.
(c) Stronger than the men.
(d) Conniving.

4. What did Shakespeare create with pain, in Bloom's interpretation?
(a) Culture.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Memory.
(d) History.

5. Whom do Antipholus and Dromio discover when they arrive in Ephesus, in "Comedy of Errors"?
(a) Their long lost twins.
(b) Their servants.
(c) Their master.
(d) Their wives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bloom say "Richard III" is a rehearsal for?

3. What charge does Bloom defend the faeries in "Midsummer Night's Dream" from?

4. What book does Bloom compare Shakespeare's plays to, in measuring their influence on Western culture?

5. What quality endears Faulconbridge to Bloom?

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