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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 30-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Viola end up with in "Twelfth Night"?
(a) Cesario.
(b) Malvolio.
(c) Olivia.
(d) Orsini.

2. How does Bloom characterize "Richard III"?
(a) Improbable.
(b) A spectacle.
(c) Successful.
(d) Absurd.

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

4. What character flaw does Bloom say runs through Othello?
(a) His jealousy seems out of sync with his love for Desdemona.
(b) His expressiveness seems to be out of sync with his blind rages.
(c) His passivity with Desdemona seems to be out of sync with his military prowess.
(d) His susceptibility to Iago seems out of place for a military leaders.

5. What does Bloom say Samuel Johnson dreaded to see in Shakespeare's plays?
(a) Villains.
(b) Deaths.
(c) Injustice.
(d) Marriages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bloom say "The Merry Wives of Windsor" might have been designed to do?

2. What does Bloom say characterizes the play "Julius Caesar"?

3. Whose philosophy does Bloom say Iago embodies?

4. What first makes the character of Titus Andronicus unsympathetic?

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

(see the answer key)

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