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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 the character Timon of Athens do to his guests?
(a) Throw stones at them.
(b) Treat them to lavish entertainments.
(c) Torture them.
(d) Eat them.

2. What does Bloom say "The Merry Wives of Windsor" might have been designed to do?
(a) Urge the government to make reforms.
(b) Make a lot of money for the theatre company.
(c) Resolve personal quandaries of Shakespeare's.
(d) Propitiate the queen with light humor.

3. What does Bloom say makes Caesar fascinating?
(a) His violence.
(b) His power.
(c) His humility.
(d) His bombast.

4. How does the play resolve the tension between Oberon and Titania?
(a) They reconcile.
(b) They die.
(c) They depart.
(d) They negotiate peace.

5. How does Bloom characterize the Falstaff of "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?
(a) A bastardization of Henry IV.
(b) The genuine Falstaff.
(c) A precursor to later villains.
(d) A false Falstaff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who whom does Fluellen compare Henry V?

2. What quality has made "Julius Caesar" a favorite of the school curriculum?

3. What does Bloom say is the heart of "Antony and Cleopatra"?

4. According to Bloom, T. S. Eliot prefers "Coriolanus" to which other Shakespeare play?

5. Whom does Shakespeare attack in "Timon of Athens"?

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