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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bloom reiterate about Christopher Marlowe?
(a) That he was older than Shakespeare.
(b) That he was a youngest son.
(c) That he drank heavily while writing.
(d) That he was murdered by English government agents.

2. What does Bloom say Samuel Johnson dreaded to see in Shakespeare's plays?
(a) Injustice.
(b) Marriages.
(c) Villains.
(d) Deaths.

3. How is Joan of Arc depicted in "Henry VI", in Bloom's account?
(a) As a whore/heroine.
(b) As a saint.
(c) As a sly, manipulative woman.
(d) As a maternal figure.

4. Who does Bloom say is the chief rival for each of the young lovers?
(a) Their lovers' nurses and friends.
(b) Their culture's mores.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Death.

5. How does Bloom characterize characters like Hamlet and Falstaff?
(a) Pure fiction.
(b) Purely literary.
(c) Creations of language itself.
(d) Larger than life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize "Comedy of Errors"?

2. Who dominates the "The Merchant of Venice", according to Bloom?

3. What quality has made "Julius Caesar" a favorite of the school curriculum?

4. Who does Proteus drive into exile?

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

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