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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 3-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which term describes Kate's speech about the proper behavior of a wife toward a husband?
(a) Irony.
(b) Soliloquy.
(c) Liturgy.
(d) Harangue.

2. What does Bloom say Samuel Johnson dreaded to see in Shakespeare's plays?
(a) Marriages.
(b) Villains.
(c) Deaths.
(d) Injustice.

3. What did Shakespeare create with pain, in Bloom's interpretation?
(a) Culture.
(b) Poetry.
(c) History.
(d) Memory.

4. How does Bloom characterize characters like Hamlet and Falstaff?
(a) Creations of language itself.
(b) Larger than life.
(c) Pure fiction.
(d) Purely literary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?

2. How is Joan of Arc depicted in "Henry VI", in Bloom's account?

3. Who does Julia look for, while she is disguised?

4. Where does Shakespeare use the themes of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", in Bloom's interpretation?

5. Who does Bloom say influenced his view of Shakespeare?

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