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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 27-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bloom say "The Merry Wives of Windsor" might have been designed to do?
(a) Propitiate the queen with light humor.
(b) Urge the government to make reforms.
(c) Resolve personal quandaries of Shakespeare's.
(d) Make a lot of money for the theatre company.

2. For whom did Cressida betray Troilus?
(a) Diomedes.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Thersites.

3. How does Bloom characterize the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra?
(a) As a literary philosophy.
(b) As a nihilistic act.
(c) As a political act.
(d) As the summit of hopeless romanticism.

4. What does the character Timon of Athens do to his guests?
(a) Eat them.
(b) Treat them to lavish entertainments.
(c) Throw stones at them.
(d) Torture them.

5. How does A. C. Bradley describe Cleopatra?
(a) As a bore.
(b) As the summit of selfishness.
(c) As the strongest of Shakespeare's women.
(d) As an inexhaustible character.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of interpretations of "Midsummer Night's Dream" does Bloom say he resents?

2. To what later character does Bloom connect Brutus from "Julius Caesar"?

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

4. How does Bloom characterize Coriolanus as a character of Shakespeare's?

5. Who is Berowne pitted against in "Love's Labor's Lost"?

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