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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 the character of Richard III?
(a) A lamentable error.
(b) A distortion of history.
(c) A parody of himself.
(d) A monstrosity.

2. What are the men overcome by, in "Love's Labor's Lost"?
(a) Female wit.
(b) War.
(c) Evil manipulations.
(d) Their own desires.

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

4. Which term describes Kate's speech about the proper behavior of a wife toward a husband?
(a) Soliloquy.
(b) Harangue.
(c) Liturgy.
(d) Irony.

5. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?
(a) Adam in 'Paradise Lost'.
(b) The Knight in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'.
(c) The Old Testament God.
(d) Melville's Captain Ahab.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Richard III's most famous line?

2. What quality endears Faulconbridge to Bloom?

3. In what way has Shakespeare outdone Marlowe with Aaron the Moor?

4. Who gets hurt in "Comedy of Errors"?

5. What play does Bloom say "Henry VI" resembles?

(see the answer key)

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