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

2. What kinds of interpretations of "Midsummer Night's Dream" does Bloom say he resents?
(a) Interpretations that minimize the war of the sexes.
(b) Interpretations that treat the play as a political drama.
(c) Interpretations that turn the play into a dark spectacle.
(d) Interpretations that over-sexualize the play.

3. Whom does Shakespeare attack in "Timon of Athens"?
(a) Alcibiades.
(b) Christopher Marlowe.
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. Which critic does Bloom say was overwhelmed by Caesar?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) Hazlitt.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) Ben Jonson.

5. How does Bloom characterize the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra?
(a) As the summit of hopeless romanticism.
(b) As a nihilistic act.
(c) As a political act.
(d) As a literary philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bloom say characterizes the play "Julius Caesar"?

2. To whom does Bloom compare Puck unfavorably?

3. What does Bloom say brings Anthony back to Cleopatra?

4. Who is Berowne pitted against in "Love's Labor's Lost"?

5. What does Bloom say is the problem with the character of Coriolanus?

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