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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 12-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who saves "Two Gentlemen of Verona", in Bloom's opinion?
(a) Launce.
(b) Proteus.
(c) Valentine.
(d) Silvia.

2. Who does Proteus drive into exile?
(a) Launce.
(b) Silvia.
(c) Valentine.
(d) Julia.

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

4. Which critic is NOT a 'romantic' critic?
(a) A.C. Bradley.
(b) Samuel Johnson.
(c) W. H. Auden.
(d) Hazlitt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What doe G. K. Chesterton say Rosalind is seeking in the woods?

2. What are the men overcome by, in "Love's Labor's Lost"?

3. What does Bloom say writers began to write after Shakespeare?

4. What do writers tend toward, after Shakespeare, according to Bloom?

5. To what later character does Bloom connect Brutus from "Julius Caesar"?

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