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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 Thersites avoid being killed?
(a) By cowardliness.
(b) By intrigue.
(c) By cunning.
(d) By undignified begging.

2. What song reminds Bloom of this other work?
(a) A dirge.
(b) A fable.
(c) A love song.
(d) A sonnet.

3. What character does Bloom say follows Shakespeare's "Pericles"?
(a) Melville's Ahab.
(b) Milton's Satan.
(c) Hawthorne's Hester Prynne.
(d) Milton's Adam.

4. How does Bloom say Shakespeare supplemented his work as a writer?
(a) By investing in merchant shipping.
(b) By building theatres.
(c) By promoting.
(d) By directing.

5. Whose plays does Bloom say Shakespeare was responding to with his Prospero and Shylock characters?
(a) Marlowe's.
(b) John Fletcher's.
(c) Ben Jonson's.
(d) Thomas Nashe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bloom describes a Nietzschean tendency toward what, in "Twelfth Night"?

2. What do writers tend toward, after Shakespeare, according to Bloom?

3. What does Bloom say the reader needs to know about "Henry V"?

4. How does Bloom characterize the match between Helena and Bertram in "All's Well That Ends Well"?

5. Who does Viola end up with in "Twelfth Night"?

(see the answer key)

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