2. What does Bloom say brings Anthony back to Cleopatra?
(a) Dependency on Cleopatra.
(b) Lust for power.
(c) Sexual lust.
(d) Hostility to Caesar.

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

4. Why was Caliban suffering, according to critic Browning?
(a) Because he will never win Ariel for himself.
(b) Because his nature is still too bestial.
(c) Because he is incapable of attaining the beautiful things he imagines.
(d) Because Prospero will not adopt him.

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

6. What does Bloom say is the reason for Iago's persecution of Othello?
(a) Iago's evil heart.
(b) Othello's failure to be promoted.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Othello's blackness.

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

8. How does Bloom say Ben Jonson saw Thersites?
(a) As a predecessor to Falstaff.
(b) As a coward.
(c) As a Christian.
(d) As a nihilist.

9. What does Bloom say in response to Hamlet's claim that he was a prisoner in Denmark?
(a) That imprisonment is a human condition.
(b) That he is a free personality.
(c) That he is not in fact imprisoned, except in the metaphor of imprisonment.
(d) That he is only partly correct.

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

11. What does Bloom say love causes in "King Lear"?
(a) Resolution.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Justice.

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

13. How does the porter describe the effects of alcohol?
(a) It confuses family lines in improvident matches.
(b) It makes people equal, but removes the ability to have sex.
(c) It blinds people to their own death, and perpetuates their genetic lines.
(d) It reveals people's true characters.

14. How does Bloom characterize the match between Helena and Bertram in "All's Well That Ends Well"?
(a) Typical mismatch.
(b) As one of many marriages that plays games with gender roles.
(c) As a rare, normal marriage.
(d) As a rare exception to the rule that love is generally destructive.

15. What does critic Hazlitt see in "Coriolanus"?
(a) The danger of political power.
(b) A warning against love.
(c) The problem with family love.
(d) The insolence of power.