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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 24-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What opera is based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?
(a) "Falstaff".
(b) "The Barber of Seville".
(c) "Carmen".
(d) "Tosca".

2. What does Feste do to Malvolio?
(a) Torment.
(b) Admire.
(c) Idealize.
(d) Thwart.

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

4. How does Bloom characterize the character of Richard III?
(a) A parody of himself.
(b) A lamentable error.
(c) A monstrosity.
(d) A distortion of history.

5. Who does Viola end up with in "Twelfth Night"?
(a) Malvolio.
(b) Orsini.
(c) Olivia.
(d) Cesario.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose skepticism does Bloom describe behind Hamlet's philosophizing?

2. How does Bloom say Ben Jonson saw Thersites?

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

4. How does Bloom describe performances of "Titus Andronicus"?

5. Bloom describes a Nietzschean tendency toward what, in "Twelfth Night"?

(see the answer key)

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