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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 15-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize "Comedy of Errors"?
(a) As Shakespeare's most unified play.
(b) As Shakespeare's most playful play.
(c) As Shakespeare's least organized play.
(d) As Shakespeare's longest, most complicated play.

2. How does "Taming of the Shrew" begin?
(a) With a play within a play.
(b) With a battle.
(c) With a murder.
(d) With a marriage.

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

4. What does Bloom say "Richard III" is a rehearsal for?
(a) More self-reflective heroes.
(b) More believable female characters.
(c) Later villains.
(d) More complex histories.

5. Which critic does Bloom say was overwhelmed by Caesar?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) Hazlitt.
(c) Ben Jonson.
(d) T. S. Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what later character does Bloom connect Brutus from "Julius Caesar"?

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

3. What does Bloom say characterizes the play "Julius Caesar"?

4. What book does Bloom compare Shakespeare's plays to, in measuring their influence on Western culture?

5. What first makes the character of Titus Andronicus unsympathetic?

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