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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize the Falstaff of "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?
(a) A false Falstaff.
(b) A bastardization of Henry IV.
(c) The genuine Falstaff.
(d) A precursor to later villains.

2. Which critic does Bloom say was overwhelmed by Caesar?
(a) Ben Jonson.
(b) Hazlitt.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) Samuel Johnson.

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

4. What do writers tend toward, after Shakespeare, according to Bloom?
(a) Oedipal urges.
(b) Political visions.
(c) Sadomasochism.
(d) Self-reflection.

5. Who counters Richard II's character in "Richard II"?
(a) Faulconbridge.
(b) Bolingbroke.
(c) Henry IV.
(d) The Earl of Southampton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bloom say steals the show in "Romeo and Juliet"?

2. What does T. S. Eliot say overwhelms "Romeo and Juliet"?

3. What makes "Love's Labor's Lost" one of Bloom's favorite plays?

4. How does the play resolve the tension between Oberon and Titania?

5. What first makes the character of Titus Andronicus unsympathetic?

(see the answer key)

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