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

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

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

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

5. What was Wilkins' role in "Pericles"?
(a) He made substantive changes to the only surviving manuscript of the play.
(b) He wrote the first two acts.
(c) He wrote the whole play.
(d) He wrote the play on which Shakespeare based his 'Pericles'.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who whom does Fluellen compare Henry V?

2. What does critic Hazlitt see in "Coriolanus"?

3. What is Bloom's complaint about "Henry VIII"?

4. What does Bloom say Thebes in "Two Noble Kinsmen" refers to?

5. Why does Janet Adelman say that Cordelia had to be murdered in "King Lear"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Bloom say "Henry V" has been used in its history?

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

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

6. What is the role of love in "King Lear", according to Bloom?

7. What does Bloom say is the moral of "All's Well That Ends Well"?

8. What parallel does Bloom describe between characters Henry V and Alexander the Great?

9. What is Bloom's estimation of "Henry VIII"?

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

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