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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 24-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Viola duels with whom in "Twelfth Night"?
(a) Malvolio.
(b) Olivia.
(c) Cesario.
(d) Orsini.

2. How does the porter describe the effects of alcohol?
(a) It confuses family lines in improvident matches.
(b) It makes people equal, but removes the ability to have sex.
(c) It reveals people's true characters.
(d) It blinds people to their own death, and perpetuates their genetic lines.

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

4. How does Bloom characterize the end of "Richard III"?
(a) Fulfilling.
(b) Disorganized.
(c) Symphonic.
(d) Repetitive.

5. What does Bloom say is the moral of "All's Well That Ends Well"?
(a) That war is the condition for which people seem to have been created.
(b) That for men, women are all the same in the dark.
(c) That love is the only thing keeping people from savagery.
(d) That love is always ultimately destructive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize the Falstaff of "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?

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

3. What does Bloom say Samuel Johnson dreaded to see in Shakespeare's plays?

4. What is it about "Richard III" that leaves Bloom dissatisfied?

5. Who is the center of the subplot in "Twelfth Night"?

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