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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bloom say Ben Jonson saw Thersites?
(a) As a predecessor to Falstaff.
(b) As a coward.
(c) As a Christian.
(d) As a nihilist.

2. Who does Proteus drive into exile?
(a) Valentine.
(b) Silvia.
(c) Launce.
(d) Julia.

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

4. What did Shakespeare create with pain, in Bloom's interpretation?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Memory.
(c) Culture.
(d) History.

5. What does Bloom say is the moral of "All's Well That Ends Well"?
(a) That love is always ultimately destructive.
(b) That love is the only thing keeping people from savagery.
(c) That war is the condition for which people seem to have been created.
(d) That for men, women are all the same in the dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bloom say is the problem with the character of Coriolanus?

2. What does critic Marc Shell say Shakespeare is criticizing in Angelo's strict enforcement of law in 'Measure for Measure'?

3. What does Iachino want from Imogen?

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

5. What does Fluellen's comparison mean for Henry V?

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