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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what later character does Bloom connect Brutus from "Julius Caesar"?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Regan and Goneril.
(c) Caliban.
(d) Iago.

3. What does Bloom say writers began to write after Shakespeare?
(a) Characters with inner lives.
(b) Tragicomedies.
(c) Characters who lived a world with modern weaponry.
(d) History plays.

4. 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 proto-human.
(d) That they are archetypes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was NOT a contemporary of Shakespeare's?

2. How does Bloom characterize "Julius Caesar"?

3. What kinds of interpretations of "Midsummer Night's Dream" does Bloom say he resents?

4. Whom do Antipholus and Dromio discover when they arrive in Ephesus, in "Comedy of Errors"?

5. What are the relationships in "Love's Labor's Lost" motivated by?

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