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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 Bloom say almost overwhelms him about "Richard III"?
(a) The Marlovian influence.
(b) The seduction scene.
(c) The battle scene.
(d) The soliloquies.

2. How does Auden describe Iago?
(a) As a practical joker.
(b) As the subterranean soul of Western culture.
(c) As karmic vengeance.
(d) As a devil.

3. What philosophical perspective does Bloom say he prefers, for looking at Shakespeare's plays?
(a) Lockean empiricism.
(b) Hegelian idealism.
(c) Transcendental lyricism.
(d) Nietzschean skepticism.

4. What does Bloom say is the center of "The Tempest'?
(a) Ariel's liberty.
(b) Prospero's development.
(c) Caliban's punishment.
(d) Prospero's restoration.

5. Who is Berowne pitted against in "Love's Labor's Lost"?
(a) Moth.
(b) Rosaline.
(c) The Princess.
(d) Armando.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the character Timon of Athens do to his guests?

2. What character does Bloom say follows Shakespeare's "Pericles"?

3. What does Bloom say in response to Hamlet's claim that he was a prisoner in Denmark?

4. What quality has made "Julius Caesar" a favorite of the school curriculum?

5. Viola duels with whom in "Twelfth Night"?

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