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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the King recognizes Cordelia, this is seen as a sign of what?
(a) His recovery from madness.
(b) His recovery from exposure.
(c) His recovery from sickness.
(d) His recovery from the flu.

2. Lear conducts a mock trial of his daughters; who serves as the judges?
(a) Kent and The Fool.
(b) Edgar, Kent, and The Fool.
(c) Edgar and Kent.
(d) Edgar and The Fool.

3. When told of the death of Cornwall, Albany says the death was what?
(a) Fair.
(b) Justice.
(c) Needful.
(d) Revenge.

4. Cordelia says that France is not fighting the English with which motivation?
(a) Land.
(b) Greed.
(c) Property.
(d) Ambition.

5. The man who leads the blind Earl of Gloucester into the heath claims what relationship to the Earl?
(a) A man-at-arms.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A servant.
(d) A tenant.

6. Cordelia says she is guiding the French army against the English only because of what?
(a) Her love for her father.
(b) Her annoyance at her sisters.
(c) Her desire to oust her sisters.
(d) Her desire for land.

7. Edgar tells Gloucester that the person who led Gloucester to the edge of the cliff looked like a what?
(a) Traitor.
(b) Boy.
(c) Demon.
(d) God.

8. Gloucester greets the news of the English taking prisoners with what thoughts?
(a) Thoughts of hopelessness.
(b) Thoughts of suicide.
(c) Thoughts of rescue.
(d) Thoughts of sadness.

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

10. Who was captured by the English army?
(a) Lear and the Marshal of France.
(b) Kent and Lear.
(c) Cordelia and the Marshal of France.
(d) Lear and Cordelia.

11. Who confirms the death of Cornwall to Cordelia and the doctor?
(a) Edgar.
(b) Lear.
(c) Edmund.
(d) Kent.

12. Who poisoned Regan?
(a) Albany.
(b) Goneril.
(c) Edmund.
(d) Cordelia.

13. Who tells Kent of a plot against the King?
(a) Gloucester.
(b) His dreams.
(c) A gentleman.
(d) The stars.

14. The British armies are encamped near what city?
(a) Dover.
(b) London.
(c) Avon.
(d) Stratford.

15. Cordelia prays that Lear will recover from what?
(a) His suicidal tendancy.
(b) His madness.
(c) His depression.
(d) His regrets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, / Than still contemned and flattered"?

2. A servant draws his sword on Cornwall because of what action?

3. Cornwall says that Edmund will find a better what with Cornwall than with Gloucester?

4. How does Edmund die?

5. Where do Lear, The Fool, Kent, and Gloucester go when they leave the farmhouse?

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