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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chaps. 30-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important character does Bloom say Iago influenced?
(a) Whitman's Self.
(b) Emerson's Transparent Eyeball.
(c) Melville's Ahab.
(d) Milton's Satan.

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

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

4. How does Auden describe Iago?
(a) As the subterranean soul of Western culture.
(b) As karmic vengeance.
(c) As a devil.
(d) As a practical joker.

5. What did Shakespeare create with pain, in Bloom's interpretation?
(a) Culture.
(b) Poetry.
(c) History.
(d) Memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do writers tend toward, after Shakespeare, according to Bloom?

2. Whom do Antipholus and Dromio discover when they arrive in Ephesus, in "Comedy of Errors"?

3. What kinds of interpretations of "Midsummer Night's Dream" does Bloom say he resents?

4. Where does Shakespeare use the themes of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", in Bloom's interpretation?

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

(see the answer key)

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