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

2. Whose riddle does Pericles solve at the beginning of the play?
(a) The Sphinx'.
(b) King Antioch's.
(c) The Delphic Oracle's.
(d) The Sibyl's.

3. What does Bloom say in response to the criticism that Shakespeare copied Hamlet from other sources?
(a) That he always improved on his sources.
(b) That Shakespeare was not even one person.
(c) That Shakespeare had bought the rights to the other works.
(d) That copying was common practice.

4. How does Bloom characterize characters like Hamlet and Falstaff?
(a) Creations of language itself.
(b) Larger than life.
(c) Purely literary.
(d) Pure fiction.

5. What does Bloom say T. S. Eliot says about "Hamlet"?
(a) That it is improbable and stagey.
(b) That it is the masterpiece of our culture.
(c) That it is too confusing.
(d) That it is too long.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bloom say characterizes the play "Julius Caesar"?

2. What was John Fletcher's role in "Henry VIII", according to Bloom?

3. What does Bloom say "Love's Labor's Lost" has in common with other plays?

4. To whom does Bloom compare Hamlet and Falstaff?

5. What does Fluellen's comparison mean for Henry V?

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