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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize Shylock?
(a) As evil incarnate.
(b) As a comic villain.
(c) As a buffoon.
(d) As a diminutive Barabas.

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

3. How does Helena conceive Bertram's child?
(a) By tricking him.
(b) She is raped by him.
(c) She seduces him.
(d) She marries him.

4. How does Bloom characterize "Comedy of Errors"?
(a) As Shakespeare's most unified play.
(b) As Shakespeare's least organized play.
(c) As Shakespeare's longest, most complicated play.
(d) As Shakespeare's most playful play.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does "Taming of the Shrew" begin?

2. How does Bloom say "Henry V" has been used in England?

3. What does Bloom say brings Anthony back to Cleopatra?

4. Whose skepticism does Bloom describe behind Hamlet's philosophizing?

5. How does Bloom characterize the end of "Measure for Measure"?

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