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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality endears Faulconbridge to Bloom?
(a) The ability to get what he wants from other people.
(b) The ability to discern the weaknesses of others.
(c) The ability to see his own mind in action.
(d) The ability to excuse himself from every wrongdoing.

2. In what way has Shakespeare outdone Marlowe with Aaron the Moor?
(a) He is more compassionate than Barabas.
(b) He is more believable than Barabas.
(c) He is more outrageous than Barabas.
(d) He is more hateful than Barabas.

3. Which term describes Kate's speech about the proper behavior of a wife toward a husband?
(a) Soliloquy.
(b) Liturgy.
(c) Irony.
(d) Harangue.

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

5. In what way did Shakespeare make progress as he wrote his plays?
(a) By developing his characters' personalities.
(b) By incorporating his characters' lives and times in their actions.
(c) By fulfilling his characters' desires.
(d) By illuminating his characters' pasts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Bloom compare Shakespeare's plays to, in measuring their influence on Western culture?

2. What does T. S. Eliot say overwhelms "Romeo and Juliet"?

3. How does Bloom characterize "Romeo and Juliet"?

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?

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