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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 Nietzsche say Hamlet's problem was?
(a) Emasculation.
(b) Fear.
(c) Madness.
(d) Thinking too well.

2. What does Bloom say is the heart of "Antony and Cleopatra"?
(a) The battle between East and West.
(b) The battle between Rome and Egypt.
(c) The battle between love and politics.
(d) The battle between the sexes.

3. Whose marriage does Bloom say is happiest in all of Shakespeare's plays?
(a) Beatrice and Benedick.
(b) The Macbeths'.
(c) Ferdinand and Miranda.
(d) Romeo and Juliet's love-death.

4. What is the sentence for Claudio's unlawful fornication?
(a) Imprisonment.
(b) Exile.
(c) Death.
(d) A fine.

5. What does Bloom say constitutes the darkness of "Cymbeline"?
(a) Posthumous is ineffective against Iachino's manipulations.
(b) There is a suggestion that Imogen might be unfaithful at heart.
(c) Iachino is not killed off, but he can continue his evil ways.
(d) Cymbeline is still jealous, even after he repents sentencing his wife to death for betrayal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Auden describe Iago?

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

3. What does critic Marc Shell say Shakespeare is criticizing in Angelo's strict enforcement of law in 'Measure for Measure'?

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

5. What does Bloom say he prefers for representations of Caliban?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Bloom say "Timon of Athens" was not performed in Shakespeare's lifetime?

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

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

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