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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. How does Bloom characterize the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra?
(a) As a political act.
(b) As a nihilistic act.
(c) As a literary philosophy.
(d) As the summit of hopeless romanticism.

2. How does "Taming of the Shrew" begin?
(a) With a battle.
(b) With a marriage.
(c) With a murder.
(d) With a play within a play.

3. What was John Fletcher's role in "Henry VIII", according to Bloom?
(a) He wrote the source play for Shakespeare's play.
(b) He helped with the writing.
(c) He wrote the first draft for Shakespeare.
(d) He authored the script.

4. What play does Bloom say "Henry VI" resembles?
(a) Tamberlaine the Great.
(b) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
(c) Doctor Faustus.
(d) The Tempest.

5. What does Bloom say "The Merry Wives of Windsor" might have been designed to do?
(a) Make a lot of money for the theatre company.
(b) Resolve personal quandaries of Shakespeare's.
(c) Propitiate the queen with light humor.
(d) Urge the government to make reforms.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Bloom say "The Merry Wives of Windsor" could be considered funny?

2. What does Bloom say is Shakespeare's status in world literature?

3. How does Bloom characterize the match between Helena and Bertram in "All's Well That Ends Well"?

4. How does C. L. Barber characterize "Twelfth Night"?

5. What does Bloom reiterate about Christopher Marlowe?

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