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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did "Titus Andronicus" accomplish for Shakespeare, according to Bloom?
(a) Purged his imagination of Marlowe.
(b) Turned him toward poetry, and away from the stage.
(c) Showed him the limits of evil.
(d) Forced him to return to original material.

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

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

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

5. What does Bloom say writers began to write after Shakespeare?
(a) Tragicomedies.
(b) Characters who lived a world with modern weaponry.
(c) Characters with inner lives.
(d) History plays.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?

2. What does T. S. Eliot say overwhelms "Romeo and Juliet"?

3. What is Richard III's most famous line?

4. Who does Proteus drive into exile?

5. How does Bloom characterize characters like Hamlet and Falstaff?

(see the answer key)

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