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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Bloom say he suspects Shakespeare of, in "Henry V"?
(a) Fear for his own safety.
(b) Disloyalty.
(c) Irony.
(d) Patriotism.

4. How does Bloom characterize Coriolanus as a character of Shakespeare's?
(a) Not passive at all.
(b) More doubtful than most.
(c) Not very introspective.
(d) More powerful than most.

5. According to Bloom, T. S. Eliot prefers "Coriolanus" to which other Shakespeare play?
(a) "King Lear".
(b) "Hamlet".
(c) "Love's Labor's Lost".
(d) "Macbeth".

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose riddle does Pericles solve at the beginning of the play?

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

3. What opera is based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?

4. Whose greatness does "Henry VIII" prophecy?

5. What character flaw does Bloom say runs through Othello?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bloom say is the difference between 'Othello' "Cymbeline"?

2. What does Bloom say is the focus of "Antony and Cleopatra"?

3. What does Bloom say is the flaw of "Coriolanus"?

4. What does Bloom say was Shakespeare's role in "Two Noble Kinsmen"?

5. What does Bloom say is the heart of "The Tempest"?

6. What does Bloom say is the heart of "Macbeth"?

7. What warning does Bloom say Emerson makes about ''King Lear"?

8. What flaws does Bloom say complicate "Cymbeline"?

9. What does Bloom say makes "Hamlet" so fascinating?

10. What purpose does Bloom say "The Merry Wives of Windsor" serves among Shakespeare's plays?

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