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

3. Whose greatness does "Henry VIII" prophecy?
(a) Joan of Arc.
(b) Anne Boleyn.
(c) Queen Elizabeth I.
(d) Queen Victoria.

4. How does Thersites avoid being killed?
(a) By cunning.
(b) By cowardliness.
(c) By intrigue.
(d) By undignified begging.

5. How does Bloom characterize Theseus in "Two Noble Kinsmen"?
(a) Shakespeare's last poetic voice.
(b) Shakespeare's dying gasp.
(c) The summit of Shakespeare's poetic philosophy.
(d) An illegitimate child of Shakespeare's genius.

6. What does Iachino want from Imogen?
(a) To seduce her or see her killed.
(b) To convince her to betray her husband's political power.
(c) To marry her.
(d) To make her queen.

7. What opera is based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?
(a) "The Barber of Seville".
(b) "Carmen".
(c) "Tosca".
(d) "Falstaff".

8. Why does Janet Adelman say that Cordelia had to be murdered in "King Lear"?
(a) To preserve the play's philosophy consistently.
(b) To protect the masculinity of the play.
(c) To prevent love from being triumphant.
(d) To counter the demise of Regan and Goneril.

9. Why does Bloom say "Timon of Athens" was never performed?
(a) Shakespeare felt the play was too personal.
(b) Shakespeare used the play to denounce contemporary London.
(c) Shakespeare's patron was offended by the play.
(d) Shakespeare died before he finished it.

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

11. What does Bloom say is the moral of "All's Well That Ends Well"?
(a) That love is always ultimately destructive.
(b) That for men, women are all the same in the dark.
(c) That war is the condition for which people seem to have been created.
(d) That love is the only thing keeping people from savagery.

12. What does Bloom say is the heart of "Antony and Cleopatra"?
(a) The battle between East and West.
(b) The battle between the sexes.
(c) The battle between Rome and Egypt.
(d) The battle between love and politics.

13. Whose philosophy does Bloom say Iago embodies?
(a) Hegel's.
(b) Aristotle's.
(c) Plato's.
(d) Nietzsche's.

14. 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.

15. What does Bloom say Thebes in "Two Noble Kinsmen" refers to?
(a) Athens in 431.
(b) London in 1613.
(c) Paris in 1599.
(d) London in 1609.