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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Coda: The Shakespeare Difference, A Word at the End: Foregrounding.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bloom compares Shakespeare's plays to the Bible in terms of what quality?
(a) Development of human personality.
(b) Expression of covenant-based relationship with the divine.
(c) Lyrical epic poetry.
(d) Awareness of the sublime.

3. What does Bloom say is the definition of tragedy?
(a) Unavoidable vents that create suffering.
(b) A pain that creates memory.
(c) A contest between form and inspiration.
(d) A problem to which there is no solution.

4. Who claims that Shakespeare invented the human personality?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Harold Bloom.

5. What does Bloom say is the lesson of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?
(a) Humor is better for survival than love.
(b) Love only brings suffering in the end.
(c) Revenge is as destructive to the person who seeks it as to the one who is visited with it.
(d) Whatever woman a man ends up with is fine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dominates the "The Merchant of Venice", according to Bloom?

2. What was John Fletcher's role in "Henry VIII", according to Bloom?

3. What is Moth's role in "Love's Labor's Lost"?

4. What does Theseus give away in "Two Noble Kinsmen"?

5. What does Bloom say in response to Hamlet's claim that he was a prisoner in Denmark?

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