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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Bloom say influenced his view of Shakespeare?
(a) Frost.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Nietzsche.

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

3. Who is Queen Mab, according to Bloom?
(a) Mercutio's wife.
(b) The powerful mobs of London.
(c) Queen Elizabeth I.
(d) The whore Mab.

4. What does Bloom say the reader needs to know about "Henry V"?
(a) The limits of the pageantry.
(b) The end of the story, where Henry V is betrayed.
(c) Henry V's true motives.
(d) The seething undercurrents beneath Henry V's pageantry.

5. What does Bloom say Samuel Johnson dreaded to see in Shakespeare's plays?
(a) Injustice.
(b) Deaths.
(c) Marriages.
(d) Villains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gets better as the king's fate gets worse in "Richard II"?

2. How does Bloom characterize Caesar?

3. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?

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

5. What does Bloom say is the moral of "All's Well That Ends Well"?

(see the answer key)

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