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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 important character does Bloom say Iago influenced?
(a) Emerson's Transparent Eyeball.
(b) Melville's Ahab.
(c) Whitman's Self.
(d) Milton's Satan.

2. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?
(a) The Knight in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'.
(b) The Old Testament God.
(c) Melville's Captain Ahab.
(d) Adam in 'Paradise Lost'.

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

4. Where does Shakespeare use the themes of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", in Bloom's interpretation?
(a) "Love's Labour's Lost".
(b) "Hamlet".
(c) "All's Well That Ends Well".
(d) "The Tempest".

5. What gets better as the king's fate gets worse in "Richard II"?
(a) The king's heart.
(b) The king's insight.
(c) The king's patience.
(d) The king's poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Iachino want from Imogen?

2. How does Bloom characterize "Comedy of Errors"?

3. What upsets Bloom about the ending of "The Merchant of Venice"?

4. How does "Henry VI" end?

5. What does Bloom say "The Merry Wives of Windsor" might have been designed to do?

(see the answer key)

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