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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 27-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bloom say the reader needs to know about "Henry V"?
(a) The end of the story, where Henry V is betrayed.
(b) The limits of the pageantry.
(c) Henry V's true motives.
(d) The seething undercurrents beneath Henry V's pageantry.

3. To whom does Bloom compare Puck unfavorably?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Prospero.
(c) Falstaff.
(d) Caliban.

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

5. What charge does Bloom defend the faeries in "Midsummer Night's Dream" from?
(a) That they are arbitrary.
(b) That they are super-human.
(c) That they are archetypes.
(d) That they are proto-human.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bloom say "The Merry Wives of Windsor" might have been designed to do?

2. How does Bloom characterize "Julius Caesar"?

3. What does the character Timon of Athens do to his guests?

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

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

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