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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. What quality endears Faulconbridge to Bloom?
2. What song reminds Bloom of this other work?
3. What does Bloom say is the purpose of Falstaff's philosophizing?
4. What does Bloom say is King John's biggest problem?
5. To what later character does Bloom connect Brutus from "Julius Caesar"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What makes Rosalind a great character in "As You Like It"?
2. What is Bloom's estimation of "Richard III"?
3. How does Bloom characterize "Much Ado About Nothing"?
4. What does "Romeo and Juliet" prefigure, in Bloom's interpretation?
5. What does Bloom say is the main action of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?
6. What is Bloom's estimation of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"?
7. How does Bloom characterize the character Shylock?
8. What similarity does Bloom say there is between "Twelfth Night" and a Ben Jonson play?
9. What personality development does Bloom describe in "Taming of the Shrew"?
10. How does Bloom say Shakespeare confronts the viewer's personality in "Comedy of Errors"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Bloom's critical perspective. What matters to him, and what parts of Shakespeare's plays, and the commentary on them, is uninteresting? How does he justify his focus?
Essay Topic 2
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate your own reading of "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human"--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
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