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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Shakespeare use the themes of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", in Bloom's interpretation?
(a) "Love's Labour's Lost".
(b) "The Tempest".
(c) "All's Well That Ends Well".
(d) "Hamlet".

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

3. What does T. S. Eliot say overwhelms "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) The conservatism of the feuding families.
(b) The power of the love between Romeo and Juliet.
(c) The improbability of the deaths.
(d) The tragic ending.

4. How does Bloom characterize "Richard III"?
(a) A spectacle.
(b) Successful.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Improbable.

5. How does Bloom characterize Shakespeare's women?
(a) Stronger than the men.
(b) Conniving.
(c) Less abstract than the men in their thinking.
(d) More cunning yet less direct than the men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Berowne's narcissism opposed by?

2. What did Shakespeare create with pain, in Bloom's interpretation?

3. Who is Queen Mab, according to Bloom?

4. What does Bloom say is King John's biggest problem?

5. What does Bloom say writers began to write after Shakespeare?

(see the answer key)

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