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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 is the heart of "Antony and Cleopatra"?
(a) The battle between East and West.
(b) The battle between love and politics.
(c) The battle between the sexes.
(d) The battle between Rome and Egypt.

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

3. What quality has made "Julius Caesar" a favorite of the school curriculum?
(a) Its betrayal.
(b) Its tight plot.
(c) Its love story.
(d) Its dramatization of bullying.

4. Who is Berowne pitted against in "Love's Labor's Lost"?
(a) Moth.
(b) Armando.
(c) Rosaline.
(d) The Princess.

5. What are the relationships in "Love's Labor's Lost" motivated by?
(a) Religious longing.
(b) Physical lust.
(c) Fear of cuckolding.
(d) Political ambition.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What charge does Bloom defend the faeries in "Midsummer Night's Dream" from?

3. How does Bloom say "Henry V" has been used in England?

4. Why does Bloom say "Timon of Athens" was never performed?

5. What does critic Hazlitt see in "Coriolanus"?

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