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

2. How does Bloom characterize "Much Ado About Nothing"?
(a) Shakespeare's most perfect play.
(b) A disorganized jumble.
(c) A Biblical comedy.
(d) Nietzschean.

3. What does Bloom say constitutes the darkness of "Cymbeline"?
(a) Iachino is not killed off, but he can continue his evil ways.
(b) Cymbeline is still jealous, even after he repents sentencing his wife to death for betrayal.
(c) Posthumous is ineffective against Iachino's manipulations.
(d) There is a suggestion that Imogen might be unfaithful at heart.

4. What gets better as the king's fate gets worse in "Richard II"?
(a) The king's heart.
(b) The king's patience.
(c) The king's poetry.
(d) The king's insight.

5. Whose philosophy does Bloom say Iago embodies?
(a) Plato's.
(b) Nietzsche's.
(c) Hegel's.
(d) Aristotle's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dominates the "The Merchant of Venice", according to Bloom?

2. How does the play resolve the tension between Oberon and Titania?

3. How does Bloom characterize Richard II's metaphors?

4. Who is Berowne pitted against in "Love's Labor's Lost"?

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

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