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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bloom say is the lesson of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?
(a) Revenge is as destructive to the person who seeks it as to the one who is visited with it.
(b) Whatever woman a man ends up with is fine.
(c) Humor is better for survival than love.
(d) Love only brings suffering in the end.

3. Where are Faulconbridge's speeches reflected?
(a) The Tempest.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Henry IV.
(d) Shakespeare's sonnets.

4. What does Bloom say "Richard III" is a rehearsal for?
(a) Later villains.
(b) More complex histories.
(c) More believable female characters.
(d) More self-reflective heroes.

5. What did "Titus Andronicus" accomplish for Shakespeare, according to Bloom?
(a) Showed him the limits of evil.
(b) Turned him toward poetry, and away from the stage.
(c) Purged his imagination of Marlowe.
(d) Forced him to return to original material.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Julia look for, while she is disguised?

2. Who claims that Shakespeare invented the human personality?

3. Who does Bloom say is the chief rival for each of the young lovers?

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

5. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?

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