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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 does Bloom reiterate about Christopher Marlowe?
(a) That he was murdered by English government agents.
(b) That he was older than Shakespeare.
(c) That he was a youngest son.
(d) That he drank heavily while writing.

2. What is it about "Richard III" that leaves Bloom dissatisfied?
(a) The lack of inner dialogue.
(b) The excess of self-consciousness in the characters.
(c) The improbability of Lady Anne's seduction.
(d) The lack of strong motivations for Richard.

3. What first makes the character of Titus Andronicus unsympathetic?
(a) The seduction of Desdemona.
(b) The arrest of Mercutio.
(c) The death of Lavinia.
(d) The sacrifice of Tamora's son.

4. What is Moth's role in "Love's Labor's Lost"?
(a) Comic sidekick.
(b) Hero.
(c) Lover.
(d) Villain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What charge does Bloom defend the faeries in "Midsummer Night's Dream" from?

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

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

4. How does Auden describe Iago?

5. Whose marriage does Bloom say is happiest in all of Shakespeare's plays?

(see the answer key)

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