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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Bloom compare Puck unfavorably?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Caliban.
(c) Prospero.
(d) Falstaff.

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

3. 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.

4. What does critic Marc Shell say Shakespeare is criticizing in Angelo's strict enforcement of law in 'Measure for Measure'?
(a) The Puritans' ineffective morality campaigns.
(b) Hypocrisy in the government's morality campaigns.
(c) The notion of law and order at all.
(d) The royal family's peccadilloes.

5. How does Bloom say Macbeth allows himself to pursue the crown?
(a) By evilly plotting for his own power.
(b) By rationally defining his deserving.
(c) By convincing himself of others' illegitimacy.
(d) By lying to himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose marriage does Bloom say is happiest in all of Shakespeare's plays?

2. How does C. L. Barber characterize "Twelfth Night"?

3. Whose appearance marks a shift in Act IV of "Winter's Tale"?

4. Whose philosophy does Bloom say Iago embodies?

5. What did "Titus Andronicus" accomplish for Shakespeare, according to Bloom?

(see the answer key)

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