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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. Whose plays does Bloom say Shakespeare was responding to with his Prospero and Shylock characters?
(a) John Fletcher's.
(b) Marlowe's.
(c) Thomas Nashe.
(d) Ben Jonson's.

2. Whom does Bloom say Iachino in "Cymbeline" resembles?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Othello.
(c) Iago.
(d) Lady Macbeth.

3. What important character does Bloom say Iago influenced?
(a) Whitman's Self.
(b) Emerson's Transparent Eyeball.
(c) Milton's Satan.
(d) Melville's Ahab.

4. In what way does Bloom say Shakespeare departs from Marlowe's precursor "The Jew of Malta"?
(a) The Jews are more caricaturist.
(b) The Christians are as vicious as the Jew.
(c) The Jew is more monstrous.
(d) The play is more overtly anti-Semitic.

5. What makes "Love's Labor's Lost" one of Bloom's favorite plays?
(a) Loveable characters.
(b) Complex plotting.
(c) Verbal fireworks.
(d) Subtlety of inner dialogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom did Cressida betray Troilus?

2. How does the play resolve the tension between Oberon and Titania?

3. What does Bloom say "The Merry Wives of Windsor" might have been designed to do?

4. Whom do Antipholus and Dromio discover when they arrive in Ephesus, in "Comedy of Errors"?

5. How does Bloom characterize Richard II's metaphors?

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