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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gets hurt in "Comedy of Errors"?
(a) Dr. Pinch.
(b) Antipholus.
(c) Dromio.
(d) Katherine.

2. How does "Taming of the Shrew" begin?
(a) With a play within a play.
(b) With a marriage.
(c) With a battle.
(d) With a murder.

3. What charge does Bloom defend the faeries in "Midsummer Night's Dream" from?
(a) That they are proto-human.
(b) That they are super-human.
(c) That they are archetypes.
(d) That they are arbitrary.

4. To whom does Bloom compare Puck unfavorably?
(a) Falstaff.
(b) Caliban.
(c) Prospero.
(d) Hamlet.

5. How does C. L. Barber characterize "Twelfth Night"?
(a) A battle of the sexes.
(b) A disguised political satire.
(c) A screwball comedy.
(d) A festive comedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Bloom say Shakespeare departs from Marlowe's precursor "The Jew of Malta"?

2. What is Richard III's most famous line?

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

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

5. Bloom describes a Nietzschean tendency toward what, in "Twelfth Night"?

(see the answer key)

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