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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 is the center of the subplot in "Twelfth Night"?
(a) Malvolio.
(b) Orsini.
(c) Cesario.
(d) Olivia.

2. Whom does Shakespeare attack in "Timon of Athens"?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Christopher Marlowe.
(c) Alcibiades.
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer.

3. Who is Queen Mab, according to Bloom?
(a) The powerful mobs of London.
(b) Mercutio's wife.
(c) Queen Elizabeth I.
(d) The whore Mab.

4. Which does Bloom NOT describe as one of Shakespeare's most fascinating characters?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Richard II.
(c) Rosalind.
(d) Falstaff.

5. How does Bloom characterize the marriage between Beatrice and Benedick?
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Sufficient.
(c) Ideal.
(d) Flawed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which critic does Bloom say was overwhelmed by Caesar?

2. How does Bloom characterize characters like Hamlet and Falstaff?

3. What first makes the character of Titus Andronicus unsympathetic?

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

5. What is it about "Richard III" that leaves Bloom dissatisfied?

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