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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 3-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does "Henry VI" end?
(a) With Henry VI being married.
(b) With Henry VI being born.
(c) With Henry VI being crowned.
(d) With Henry VI being dying in the Tower.

2. Who gets hurt in "Comedy of Errors"?
(a) Katherine.
(b) Dr. Pinch.
(c) Antipholus.
(d) Dromio.

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

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

5. Who does Proteus drive into exile?
(a) Julia.
(b) Silvia.
(c) Launce.
(d) Valentine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of play is "Taming of the Shrew"?

2. What play does Bloom say "Henry VI" resembles?

3. What does Bloom say is the lesson of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?

4. Who does Julia look for, while she is disguised?

5. What does Bloom say writers began to write after Shakespeare?

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