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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bloom say brings Anthony back to Cleopatra?
(a) Lust for power.
(b) Sexual lust.
(c) Dependency on Cleopatra.
(d) Hostility to Caesar.

3. What does critic Hazlitt see in "Coriolanus"?
(a) The insolence of power.
(b) A warning against love.
(c) The danger of political power.
(d) The problem with family love.

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

5. What is Moth's role in "Love's Labor's Lost"?
(a) Lover.
(b) Comic sidekick.
(c) Villain.
(d) Hero.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Bloom compare Puck unfavorably?

2. Who whom does Fluellen compare Henry V?

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

4. How does Bloom characterize Anthony's death?

5. How does Bloom characterize the Falstaff of "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?

(see the answer key)

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