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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize "Julius Caesar"?
(a) As the tragedy of all politics.
(b) As a warning against ambition.
(c) As the tragedy of the Senate.
(d) As the tragedy of Brutus.

2. What does Bloom say is the lesson of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?
(a) Revenge is as destructive to the person who seeks it as to the one who is visited with it.
(b) Love only brings suffering in the end.
(c) Whatever woman a man ends up with is fine.
(d) Humor is better for survival than love.

3. What is Berowne's narcissism opposed by?
(a) Female intellect and humor.
(b) The indifference of nature.
(c) Brute masculine force.
(d) Plotting and manipulations.

4. In what way has Shakespeare outdone Marlowe with Aaron the Moor?
(a) He is more hateful than Barabas.
(b) He is more outrageous than Barabas.
(c) He is more compassionate than Barabas.
(d) He is more believable than Barabas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize Faulconbridge?

2. What is it about "Richard III" that leaves Bloom dissatisfied?

3. What are the men overcome by, in "Love's Labor's Lost"?

4. How does Bloom characterize the end of "Richard III"?

5. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?

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