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

2. What did Shakespeare create with pain, in Bloom's interpretation?
(a) Memory.
(b) Culture.
(c) History.
(d) Poetry.

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

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

5. Whom do Antipholus and Dromio discover when they arrive in Ephesus, in "Comedy of Errors"?
(a) Their wives.
(b) Their long lost twins.
(c) Their master.
(d) Their servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of play is "Taming of the Shrew"?

2. Who does Bloom say steals the show in "Romeo and Juliet"?

3. Who is Faulconbridge's father?

4. Who does Proteus drive into exile?

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

(see the answer key)

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