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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Coda: The Shakespeare Difference, A Word at the End: Foregrounding.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bloom say is the moral of "All's Well That Ends Well"?
(a) That love is always ultimately destructive.
(b) That war is the condition for which people seem to have been created.
(c) That for men, women are all the same in the dark.
(d) That love is the only thing keeping people from savagery.

2. Bloom describes a Nietzschean tendency toward what, in "Twelfth Night"?
(a) Play.
(b) Truth.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Anarchy.

3. What does Bloom say T. S. Eliot says about "Hamlet"?
(a) That it is the masterpiece of our culture.
(b) That it is improbable and stagey.
(c) That it is too long.
(d) That it is too confusing.

4. Who whom does Bloom compare Beatrice and Benedick from "Much Ado About Nothing"?
(a) Regan and Goneril in "King Lear".
(b) Orlando and Rosalind in "As You Like It".
(c) "Romeo and Juliet".
(d) The lovers in "Love's Labor's Lost".

5. Who does Bloom say is the chief rival for each of the young lovers?
(a) Their lovers' nurses and friends.
(b) Their parents.
(c) Death.
(d) Their culture's mores.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize Theseus in "Two Noble Kinsmen"?

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

3. How does C. L. Barber characterize "Twelfth Night"?

4. What does Bloom say constitutes the darkness of "Cymbeline"?

5. Who saves "Two Gentlemen of Verona", in Bloom's opinion?

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