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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 whom does Bloom compare Beatrice and Benedick from "Much Ado About Nothing"?
(a) Orlando and Rosalind in "As You Like It".
(b) Regan and Goneril in "King Lear".
(c) The lovers in "Love's Labor's Lost".
(d) "Romeo and Juliet".

2. How does Helena conceive Bertram's child?
(a) By tricking him.
(b) She is raped by him.
(c) She marries him.
(d) She seduces him.

3. What does Bloom say about the relationship between Othello and Desdemona?
(a) That it was not sexual.
(b) That it was not a marriage.
(c) That it was an ideal marriage.
(d) That it is emblematic of Shakespeare's poetic outlook.

4. How does Bloom characterize "Richard III"?
(a) Improbable.
(b) A spectacle.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Successful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Bloom say Shakespeare departs from Marlowe's precursor "The Jew of Malta"?

2. How does Thersites avoid being killed?

3. Who is the center of the subplot in "Twelfth Night"?

4. Whom do Antipholus and Dromio discover when they arrive in Ephesus, in "Comedy of Errors"?

5. How does Bloom characterize Theseus in "Two Noble Kinsmen"?

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