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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 Bloom say is the center of "The Tempest'?
(a) Prospero's restoration.
(b) Prospero's development.
(c) Caliban's punishment.
(d) Ariel's liberty.

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

3. What does Theseus give away in "Two Noble Kinsmen"?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His wife.
(c) His lands.
(d) His throne.

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

5. What does critic Marc Shell say Shakespeare is criticizing in Angelo's strict enforcement of law in 'Measure for Measure'?
(a) Hypocrisy in the government's morality campaigns.
(b) The Puritans' ineffective morality campaigns.
(c) The royal family's peccadilloes.
(d) The notion of law and order at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Bloom say Iachino in "Cymbeline" resembles?

2. What is the sentence for Claudio's unlawful fornication?

3. Whose appearance marks a shift in Act IV of "Winter's Tale"?

4. How does Bloom characterize Theseus in "Two Noble Kinsmen"?

5. Whose skepticism does Bloom describe behind Hamlet's philosophizing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What view does Bloom take on Iago's character?

3. What is the moral of "Measure for Measure", in Bloom's account?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What insight does Bloom say "All's Well That Ends Well" gives us into marriage?

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