View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Julia look for, while she is disguised?
(a) Valentine.
(b) Silvia.
(c) Proteus.
(d) Proteus' dog.

2. What was Wilkins' role in "Pericles"?
(a) He wrote the first two acts.
(b) He made substantive changes to the only surviving manuscript of the play.
(c) He wrote the play on which Shakespeare based his 'Pericles'.
(d) He wrote the whole play.

3. Whom does Shakespeare attack in "Timon of Athens"?
(a) Christopher Marlowe.
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(c) Alcibiades.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. What is Richard III's most famous line?
(a) Is this a dagger I see before me?
(b) A rose by any other name would be as sweet.
(c) To be or not to be.
(d) My kingdom for a horse.

5. What does Bloom say is the problem with the character of Coriolanus?
(a) We do not know Voluminia's thoughts about her son's treason.
(b) Coriolanus does not explain why he fought against Rome.
(c) The viewer does not know Coriolanus' reasons for surrendering.
(d) Coriolanus' death is not dramatized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doe G. K. Chesterton say Rosalind is seeking in the woods?

2. How does Bloom characterize "Romeo and Juliet"?

3. What does William Hazlitt say is the center of "Othello"?

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

5. Whose appearance marks a shift in Act IV of "Winter's Tale"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 233 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample