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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Coda: The Shakespeare Difference, A Word at the End: Foregrounding.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the play resolve the tension between Oberon and Titania?
(a) They reconcile.
(b) They negotiate peace.
(c) They depart.
(d) They die.

2. What quality has made "Julius Caesar" a favorite of the school curriculum?
(a) Its betrayal.
(b) Its love story.
(c) Its tight plot.
(d) Its dramatization of bullying.

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

4. Who whom does Fluellen compare Henry V?
(a) Henry IV.
(b) Alexander the Great.
(c) Falstaff.
(d) Caesar.

5. Who does Bloom say steals the show in "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) Tybalt.
(b) Mercutio and the Nurse.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Lords Capulet and Montague.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bloom, T. S. Eliot prefers "Coriolanus" to which other Shakespeare play?

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

3. What was John Fletcher's role in "Henry VIII", according to Bloom?

4. What does Bloom say in response to Hamlet's claim that he was a prisoner in Denmark?

5. How does Bloom characterize Caesar?

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