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

2. How does Bloom characterize Shakespeare's women?
(a) Conniving.
(b) Stronger than the men.
(c) More cunning yet less direct than the men.
(d) Less abstract than the men in their thinking.

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

4. What does Bloom say brings Anthony back to Cleopatra?
(a) Dependency on Cleopatra.
(b) Hostility to Caesar.
(c) Sexual lust.
(d) Lust for power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What character flaw does Bloom say runs through Othello?

2. Whom does Bloom say Iachino in "Cymbeline" resembles?

3. To what later character does Bloom connect Brutus from "Julius Caesar"?

4. Why does Janet Adelman say that Cordelia had to be murdered in "King Lear"?

5. Whose philosophy does Bloom say Iago embodies?

(see the answer key)

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