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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does "Taming of the Shrew" begin?
(a) With a battle.
(b) With a marriage.
(c) With a play within a play.
(d) With a murder.

2. What song reminds Bloom of this other work?
(a) A dirge.
(b) A love song.
(c) A sonnet.
(d) A fable.

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

4. How does Bloom characterize characters like Hamlet and Falstaff?
(a) Larger than life.
(b) Pure fiction.
(c) Creations of language itself.
(d) Purely literary.

5. How is Joan of Arc depicted in "Henry VI", in Bloom's account?
(a) As a maternal figure.
(b) As a sly, manipulative woman.
(c) As a saint.
(d) As a whore/heroine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who gets hurt in "Comedy of Errors"?

3. How does Bloom characterize Shakespeare's women?

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

5. How does Bloom characterize "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?

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