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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does Edgar feel when he sees that his father is blind?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Horror.
(d) Fear.

2. How does Goneril die?
(a) Regan poisons her.
(b) A servant stabs her.
(c) Edmund kills her.
(d) By suicide.

3. Where does Act 3, Scene 5 take place?
(a) Cornwall's castle.
(b) Cornwall's castle.
(c) Gloucester's castle.
(d) Gloucester's courtyard.

4. Where do Lear, The Fool, Kent, and Gloucester go when they leave the farmhouse?
(a) Dover.
(b) France.
(c) To Cordelia.
(d) To see a doctor.

5. Edmund fakes feeling what about turning in his father?
(a) Emotional conflict
(b) Guilt.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Sorrow.

6. Who says "Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, / Than still contemned and flattered"?
(a) Lear.
(b) Regan.
(c) Edgar.
(d) Gloucester.

7. Who loses the battle according to the news Edgar brings?
(a) Lear.
(b) The French.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Albany.

8. Lear says that wickedness is only punished in the poor and that wickedness isn't punished in the rich because they are protected by what?
(a) Their homes.
(b) Their status.
(c) Their wealth.
(d) Their servants.

9. Albany comes to the British encampment and says that the King is with Cordelia where?
(a) At the castle.
(b) In the French encampment.
(c) In the nearby forest.
(d) In the town.

10. Who states that Goneril is a better soldier than Albany?
(a) Cornwall.
(b) Oswald.
(c) A soldier.
(d) Edmund.

11. What does the doctor prescribe to help cure Lear's madness?
(a) Sleep and rest.
(b) Cold water baths.
(c) Herbs and walking.
(d) Nothing can cure madness.

12. Edmund laments promising himself to both sisters and figures out that the only way he is going to enjoy one of them is for what to happen?
(a) Goneril stays married to Albany.
(b) If the sisters move farther apart.
(c) He says he can enjoy them both if he is crafty.
(d) One of the sisters to die.

13. What is Edmund's response to Regan when she asks him if he slept with Goneril?
(a) Refusal.
(b) He agrees.
(c) Denial.
(d) He ignores her.

14. When Gloucester is brought in and tied up, he asks Regan, Goneril, and Cornwall to not mistreat him because why?
(a) Because they are human.
(b) Because he helped their father.
(c) Because they are his guests.
(d) Because they are related to him.

15. Regan thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?
(a) Beheading.
(b) The stocks.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Oswald?

2. Oswald reports that Albany smiled when he heard what news?

3. Kent wonders how such different daughters can come from the same what?

4. The messenger who delivers the news of Cornwall's death to Albany and Goneril also delivers a letter to Goneril from whom?

5. How does Edgar lead the blind Gloucester from the heath to the cliffs?

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