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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 Bloom characterize Faulconbridge?
(a) As the most Shakespearean character in Shakespeare's plays.
(b) As the last Marlowe-type character in Shakespeare.
(c) As the first Shakespearean character.
(d) As the first of the renaissance men in Shakespeare's plays.
2. Who saves "Two Gentlemen of Verona", in Bloom's opinion?
(a) Proteus.
(b) Valentine.
(c) Silvia.
(d) Launce.
3. How does "Henry VI" end?
(a) With Henry VI being crowned.
(b) With Henry VI being born.
(c) With Henry VI being married.
(d) With Henry VI being dying in the Tower.
4. What does Bloom say is the lesson of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?
(a) Revenge is as destructive to the person who seeks it as to the one who is visited with it.
(b) Humor is better for survival than love.
(c) Whatever woman a man ends up with is fine.
(d) Love only brings suffering in the end.
5. Which critic is NOT a 'romantic' critic?
(a) W. H. Auden.
(b) Hazlitt.
(c) A.C. Bradley.
(d) Samuel Johnson.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Proteus drive into exile?
2. What complicates the action of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", according to Bloom?
3. How does Bloom characterize "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?
4. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?
5. What does Faulconbridge save of his father's?
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