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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does William Hazlitt say is the center of "Othello"?
(a) Othello's blackness.
(b) Othello's jealousy.
(c) Desdemona's innocence.
(d) Iago.

2. Who is the center of the subplot in "Twelfth Night"?
(a) Cesario.
(b) Malvolio.
(c) Orsini.
(d) Olivia.

3. How does Thersites avoid being killed?
(a) By cowardliness.
(b) By cunning.
(c) By intrigue.
(d) By undignified begging.

4. What does Bloom say T. S. Eliot says about "Hamlet"?
(a) That it is too confusing.
(b) That it is the masterpiece of our culture.
(c) That it is too long.
(d) That it is improbable and stagey.

5. How does Bloom characterize Coriolanus as a character of Shakespeare's?
(a) Not passive at all.
(b) More powerful than most.
(c) More doubtful than most.
(d) Not very introspective.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bloom describes a Nietzschean tendency toward what, in "Twelfth Night"?

2. What objection does Dr. Johnson make about "Cymbeline"?

3. How does Bloom characterize the Falstaff of "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?

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

5. Whose marriage does Bloom say is happiest in all of Shakespeare's plays?

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