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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did "Titus Andronicus" accomplish for Shakespeare, according to Bloom?
(a) Forced him to return to original material.
(b) Turned him toward poetry, and away from the stage.
(c) Purged his imagination of Marlowe.
(d) Showed him the limits of evil.

2. 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.

3. What kind of play is "Taming of the Shrew"?
(a) Comedy.
(b) Farce.
(c) History.
(d) Tragedy.

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

5. What quality endears Faulconbridge to Bloom?
(a) The ability to discern the weaknesses of others.
(b) The ability to excuse himself from every wrongdoing.
(c) The ability to see his own mind in action.
(d) The ability to get what he wants from other people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bloom say steals the show in "Romeo and Juliet"?

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

3. Who was NOT a contemporary of Shakespeare's?

4. How does Bloom characterize "Richard III"?

5. What quality do Faulconbridge and Hamlet have in common, according to Bloom?

(see the answer key)

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