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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. 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 notion of law and order at all.
(c) Hypocrisy in the government's morality campaigns.
(d) The Puritans' ineffective morality campaigns.

2. Where are Faulconbridge's speeches reflected?
(a) The Tempest.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Shakespeare's sonnets.
(d) Henry IV.

3. How does Bloom characterize Shylock?
(a) As evil incarnate.
(b) As a buffoon.
(c) As a comic villain.
(d) As a diminutive Barabas.

4. What aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy does Iago embody, according to Bloom?
(a) The playfulness.
(b) The evil.
(c) The nihilism.
(d) The literariness.

5. What does Bloom say makes Caesar fascinating?
(a) His violence.
(b) His power.
(c) His bombast.
(d) His humility.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Bloom characterize Rosalind in "As You Like It"?

2. What kind of play is "Taming of the Shrew"?

3. For whom is Shylock a predecessor, in Bloom's interpretation?

4. What does Bloom say almost overwhelms him about "Richard III"?

5. What gets better as the king's fate gets worse in "Richard II"?

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