4. How does Bloom characterize "Julius Caesar"?
(a) As the tragedy of the Senate.
(b) As the tragedy of Brutus.
(c) As the tragedy of all politics.
(d) As a warning against ambition.

5. How does "Henry VI" end?
(a) With Henry VI being married.
(b) With Henry VI being born.
(c) With Henry VI being dying in the Tower.
(d) With Henry VI being crowned.

6. What song reminds Bloom of this other work?
(a) A love song.
(b) A sonnet.
(c) A fable.
(d) A dirge.

7. How does Shakespeare use "As You Like It" to comment on his own politics?
(a) He uses allusions to Marlowe's death to assert his political cautiousness.
(b) He implores Marlowe to forgive him for trying to survive in trying times.
(c) He cites Marlowe's political bravery as the reason for his outrageous dramas.
(d) He uses his characters to lament his political timidity.

8. For whom is Shylock a predecessor, in Bloom's interpretation?
(a) Edmund in "King Lear".
(b) Caesar in "Julius Caesar".
(c) Macbeth in "Macbeth".
(d) Puck in "Midsummer Night's Dream".

9. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?
(a) The Knight in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'.
(b) Adam in 'Paradise Lost'.
(c) Melville's Captain Ahab.
(d) The Old Testament God.

10. Where are Faulconbridge's speeches reflected?
(a) The Tempest.
(b) Henry IV.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Shakespeare's sonnets.

11. What quality endears Faulconbridge to Bloom?
(a) The ability to discern the weaknesses of others.
(b) The ability to see his own mind in action.
(c) The ability to get what he wants from other people.
(d) The ability to excuse himself from every wrongdoing.

12. In what way did Shakespeare make progress as he wrote his plays?
(a) By fulfilling his characters' desires.
(b) By developing his characters' personalities.
(c) By illuminating his characters' pasts.
(d) By incorporating his characters' lives and times in their actions.

13. What book does Bloom compare Shakespeare's plays to, in measuring their influence on Western culture?
(a) The Canterbury Tales.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Moby Dick.
(d) Paradise Lost.

14. Who was NOT a contemporary of Shakespeare's?
(a) William Chaucer.
(b) John Fletcher.
(c) Christopher Marlowe.
(d) Ben Jonson.

15. What play does Bloom say "Henry VI" resembles?
(a) Tamberlaine the Great.
(b) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
(c) Doctor Faustus.
(d) The Tempest.