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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 30-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality do Faulconbridge and Hamlet have in common, according to Bloom?
(a) They are both sons of kings.
(b) They are both unsuccessful contenders for thrones.
(c) They are both larger than life.
(d) They are both paralyzed by doubts.

2. What does Bloom say the reader needs to know about "Henry V"?
(a) The limits of the pageantry.
(b) The end of the story, where Henry V is betrayed.
(c) Henry V's true motives.
(d) The seething undercurrents beneath Henry V's pageantry.

3. Who counters Richard II's character in "Richard II"?
(a) Henry IV.
(b) The Earl of Southampton.
(c) Faulconbridge.
(d) Bolingbroke.

4. What does Bloom say is the moral of "All's Well That Ends Well"?
(a) That love is the only thing keeping people from savagery.
(b) That war is the condition for which people seem to have been created.
(c) That love is always ultimately destructive.
(d) That for men, women are all the same in the dark.

5. What charge does Bloom defend the faeries in "Midsummer Night's Dream" from?
(a) That they are archetypes.
(b) That they are arbitrary.
(c) That they are proto-human.
(d) That they are super-human.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bloom say in response to Hamlet's claim that he was a prisoner in Denmark?

2. How does Bloom characterize the end of "Richard III"?

3. Whose marriage does Bloom say is happiest in all of Shakespeare's plays?

4. What complicates the action of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", according to Bloom?

5. To whom does Bloom compare Puck unfavorably?

(see the answer key)

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