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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 objection does Dr. Johnson make about "Cymbeline"?
(a) The action is unbelievable.
(b) The villain's motives are not explicit.
(c) There are too many sudden shifts.
(d) The character's motivations are not clear.

2. What kind of play is "Taming of the Shrew"?
(a) History.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Comedy.
(d) Farce.

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

4. Who does Bloom say is the chief rival for each of the young lovers?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Their lovers' nurses and friends.
(c) Their culture's mores.
(d) Death.

5. How does Bloom characterize the end of "Measure for Measure"?
(a) Miserable.
(b) Barely happy.
(c) Resplendently happy.
(d) A concession to necessity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality has made "Julius Caesar" a favorite of the school curriculum?

2. Who whom does Fluellen compare Henry V?

3. Whose riddle does Pericles solve at the beginning of the play?

4. How does Auden describe Iago?

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

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