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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 21-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize Richard II's metaphors?
(a) A lyrical alternative to politics.
(b) Poetic reconstitution of reality.
(c) An anarchic hostility to monarchy.
(d) Nietzschean escape from reality.

2. What does Bloom say almost overwhelms him about "Richard III"?
(a) The battle scene.
(b) The soliloquies.
(c) The Marlovian influence.
(d) The seduction scene.

3. What does Bloom say is the purpose of Falstaff's philosophizing?
(a) Persuasion.
(b) Self-protection.
(c) Self-reflection.
(d) Amusement.

4. Bloom describes a Nietzschean tendency toward what, in "Twelfth Night"?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Play.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Truth.

5. Whose marriage does Bloom say is happiest in all of Shakespeare's plays?
(a) Beatrice and Benedick.
(b) The Macbeths'.
(c) Ferdinand and Miranda.
(d) Romeo and Juliet's love-death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize Shylock?

2. What does Bloom say T. S. Eliot says about "Hamlet"?

3. What does Bloom say is the lesson of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?

4. What does Bloom say "Richard III" is a rehearsal for?

5. What did "Titus Andronicus" accomplish for Shakespeare, according to Bloom?

(see the answer key)

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