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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which critic is NOT a 'romantic' critic?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) Hazlitt.
(c) W. H. Auden.
(d) A.C. Bradley.

2. What book does Bloom compare Shakespeare's plays to, in measuring their influence on Western culture?
(a) The Canterbury Tales.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Moby Dick.
(d) Paradise Lost.

3. How does Bloom characterize Shakespeare's women?
(a) Less abstract than the men in their thinking.
(b) Stronger than the men.
(c) Conniving.
(d) More cunning yet less direct than the men.

4. What does Bloom say writers began to write after Shakespeare?
(a) Characters with inner lives.
(b) Tragicomedies.
(c) History plays.
(d) Characters who lived a world with modern weaponry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bloom say is the lesson of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?

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

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

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

5. What quality do Faulconbridge and Hamlet have in common, according to Bloom?

(see the answer key)

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