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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 3-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who saves "Two Gentlemen of Verona", in Bloom's opinion?
(a) Launce.
(b) Silvia.
(c) Valentine.
(d) Proteus.

2. How does "Henry VI" end?
(a) With Henry VI being born.
(b) With Henry VI being married.
(c) With Henry VI being crowned.
(d) With Henry VI being dying in the Tower.

3. Who does Bloom say influenced his view of Shakespeare?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Eliot.
(d) Frost.

4. Who was NOT a contemporary of Shakespeare's?
(a) Christopher Marlowe.
(b) Ben Jonson.
(c) William Chaucer.
(d) John Fletcher.

5. How does Bloom characterize "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?
(a) As weak.
(b) As fantasy.
(c) As convoluted.
(d) As inaccurate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom do Antipholus and Dromio discover when they arrive in Ephesus, in "Comedy of Errors"?

2. What do writers tend toward, after Shakespeare, according to Bloom?

3. How is Joan of Arc depicted in "Henry VI", in Bloom's account?

4. What does Bloom say Samuel Johnson dreaded to see in Shakespeare's plays?

5. What complicates the action of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", according to Bloom?

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