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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 charge does Bloom defend the faeries in "Midsummer Night's Dream" from?
(a) That they are proto-human.
(b) That they are super-human.
(c) That they are arbitrary.
(d) That they are archetypes.

2. In what way does Bloom say Shakespeare departs from Marlowe's precursor "The Jew of Malta"?
(a) The play is more overtly anti-Semitic.
(b) The Christians are as vicious as the Jew.
(c) The Jew is more monstrous.
(d) The Jews are more caricaturist.

3. What first makes the character of Titus Andronicus unsympathetic?
(a) The arrest of Mercutio.
(b) The death of Lavinia.
(c) The seduction of Desdemona.
(d) The sacrifice of Tamora's son.

4. Whom do Antipholus and Dromio discover when they arrive in Ephesus, in "Comedy of Errors"?
(a) Their wives.
(b) Their long lost twins.
(c) Their servants.
(d) Their master.

5. What book does Bloom compare Shakespeare's plays to, in measuring their influence on Western culture?
(a) The Canterbury Tales.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Moby Dick.
(d) Paradise Lost.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What objection does Dr. Johnson make about "Cymbeline"?

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

4. What does Bloom say is the purpose of Falstaff's philosophizing?

5. How does Bloom characterize Caesar?

(see the answer key)

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