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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 Richard II's metaphors?
(a) Poetic reconstitution of reality.
(b) An anarchic hostility to monarchy.
(c) A lyrical alternative to politics.
(d) Nietzschean escape from reality.

2. What are the men overcome by, in "Love's Labor's Lost"?
(a) Their own desires.
(b) Female wit.
(c) War.
(d) Evil manipulations.

3. How does Bloom characterize characters like Hamlet and Falstaff?
(a) Larger than life.
(b) Pure fiction.
(c) Purely literary.
(d) Creations of language itself.

4. What does Bloom say is the heart of "Antony and Cleopatra"?
(a) The battle between the sexes.
(b) The battle between Rome and Egypt.
(c) The battle between love and politics.
(d) The battle between East and West.

5. How does Shakespeare use "As You Like It" to comment on his own politics?
(a) He implores Marlowe to forgive him for trying to survive in trying times.
(b) He uses allusions to Marlowe's death to assert his political cautiousness.
(c) He uses his characters to lament his political timidity.
(d) He cites Marlowe's political bravery as the reason for his outrageous dramas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bloom characterize the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra?

2. Why does Bloom say "Timon of Athens" was never performed?

3. How does A. C. Bradley describe Cleopatra?

4. In what way has Shakespeare outdone Marlowe with Aaron the Moor?

5. What does Bloom reiterate about Christopher Marlowe?

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