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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. To whom does Bloom characterize Rosalind in "As You Like It"?
(a) Beatrice.
(b) Othello.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Iago.

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

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

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

5. What does Ben Jonson say "Winter's Tale" unites with the dark fears of Leontes?
(a) A feverish vision of eternity.
(b) The fresh hope of spring.
(c) The dire reality of mortality.
(d) The spectral possibility of spiritual rebirth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Wilkins' role in "Pericles"?

2. How does Bloom characterize "Richard III"?

3. What does T. S. Eliot say overwhelms "Romeo and Juliet"?

4. What does Bloom say makes Caesar fascinating?

5. Who does Viola end up with in "Twelfth Night"?

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