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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. Who does Bloom say is the chief rival for each of the young lovers?
(a) Death.
(b) Their culture's mores.
(c) Their lovers' nurses and friends.
(d) Their parents.

2. What are the men overcome by, in "Love's Labor's Lost"?
(a) Evil manipulations.
(b) Their own desires.
(c) War.
(d) Female wit.

3. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?
(a) The Knight in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'.
(b) Adam in 'Paradise Lost'.
(c) The Old Testament God.
(d) Melville's Captain Ahab.

4. What is it about "Richard III" that leaves Bloom dissatisfied?
(a) The improbability of Lady Anne's seduction.
(b) The excess of self-consciousness in the characters.
(c) The lack of inner dialogue.
(d) The lack of strong motivations for Richard.

5. What important character does Bloom say Iago influenced?
(a) Emerson's Transparent Eyeball.
(b) Melville's Ahab.
(c) Whitman's Self.
(d) Milton's Satan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bloom say constitutes the darkness of "Cymbeline"?

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

3. What does Bloom say makes Falstaff a great character?

4. What does Feste do to Malvolio?

5. How does "Henry VI" end?

(see the answer key)

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