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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Queen Mab, according to Bloom?
(a) Queen Elizabeth I.
(b) The whore Mab.
(c) Mercutio's wife.
(d) The powerful mobs of London.

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

3. How does Bloom characterize "Richard III"?
(a) Absurd.
(b) A spectacle.
(c) Improbable.
(d) Successful.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which critic is NOT a 'romantic' critic?

2. Who was NOT a contemporary of Shakespeare's?

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

4. What first makes the character of Titus Andronicus unsympathetic?

5. What song reminds Bloom of this other work?

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