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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 "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Heart-breaking.
(c) Top-heavy.
(d) Bittersweet.

2. Who claims that Shakespeare invented the human personality?
(a) T. S. Eliot.
(b) Samuel Johnson.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Harold Bloom.

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

4. What does T. S. Eliot say overwhelms "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) The improbability of the deaths.
(b) The tragic ending.
(c) The power of the love between Romeo and Juliet.
(d) The conservatism of the feuding families.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Proteus drive into exile?

2. How does "Taming of the Shrew" begin?

3. What is it about "Richard III" that leaves Bloom dissatisfied?

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

5. What does Bloom say is King John's biggest problem?

(see the answer key)

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