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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What song reminds Bloom of this other work?
(a) A fable.
(b) A dirge.
(c) A love song.
(d) A sonnet.

2. What is the sentence for Claudio's unlawful fornication?
(a) A fine.
(b) Exile.
(c) Death.
(d) Imprisonment.

3. What doe G. K. Chesterton say Rosalind is seeking in the woods?
(a) Her masculine self.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her adult self.
(d) Her lover.

4. What does Bloom say almost overwhelms him about "Richard III"?
(a) The seduction scene.
(b) The soliloquies.
(c) The battle scene.
(d) The Marlovian influence.

5. Whose skepticism does Bloom describe behind Hamlet's philosophizing?
(a) Socrates'.
(b) Montaigne's.
(c) Diogenes'.
(d) Plato's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Fluellen's comparison mean for Henry V?

3. For whom is Shylock a predecessor, in Bloom's interpretation?

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

5. What does Iago triumph over, in Bloom's interpretation?

(see the answer key)

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