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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Auden describe Iago?
2. What character flaw does Bloom say runs through Othello?
3. How does Bloom characterize the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra?
4. Whose philosophy does Bloom say Iago embodies?
5. How does Bloom say Ben Jonson saw Thersites?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Bloom characterize the play "Pericles"?
2. What does Bloom say is the heart of "The Tempest"?
3. What interpretation does Bloom say he favors for Caliban in "The Tempest"?
4. What flaws does Bloom say complicate "Cymbeline"?
5. What warning does Bloom say Emerson makes about ''King Lear"?
6. What insight does Bloom say "All's Well That Ends Well" gives us into marriage?
7. What parallel does Bloom describe between characters Henry V and Alexander the Great?
8. Where does Bloom see comedy in "Antony and Cleopatra"?
9. What does Bloom say is the heart of "Macbeth"?
10. What is Bloom's estimation of "Henry VIII"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In many of his other works of criticism, Bloom describes his affinity for the Gnostic idea that there is one eternal, living moment, and we enter into it and depart from it, but the flame itself stays alive, transcendent and human. Where do you think the flame that is burning in Shakespeare is burning today?
Essay Topic 2
What is the role of society in Shakespeare's writing, and what is its role in Bloom's thinking? Is society meant to be entered, resisted, overcome, evaded? How do Shakespeare and Bloom understand the imaginative person's place in society?
Essay Topic 3
How useful is the categorical breakdown Bloom uses--histories, comedies, tragedies, problem plays, etc.? Is there too much overlap between plays for these terms to be useful? What use does this schema of categorization have?
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