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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 15-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bloom describes a Nietzschean tendency toward what, in "Twelfth Night"?
(a) Truth.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Play.

2. What is Berowne's narcissism opposed by?
(a) Female intellect and humor.
(b) Plotting and manipulations.
(c) The indifference of nature.
(d) Brute masculine force.

3. How does Bloom characterize "Julius Caesar"?
(a) As a warning against ambition.
(b) As the tragedy of all politics.
(c) As the tragedy of the Senate.
(d) As the tragedy of Brutus.

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

5. How does Bloom characterize Richard II's metaphors?
(a) Nietzschean escape from reality.
(b) A lyrical alternative to politics.
(c) An anarchic hostility to monarchy.
(d) Poetic reconstitution of reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize "Much Ado About Nothing"?

2. To whom does Bloom characterize Rosalind in "As You Like It"?

3. What does Bloom say is the lesson of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?

4. How does Bloom characterize the character of Richard III?

5. What complicates the action of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", according to Bloom?

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