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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did the King of France leave the French encampment and return to France?
(a) Because his life was in danger.
(b) He didn't want to see King Lear.
(c) There was important business to take care of in France.
(d) So he wouldn't have to fight.

3. Where does Act 4, Scene 3 take place?
(a) In a town.
(b) In a forest.
(c) At the French encampment.
(d) Outside the French encampment.

4. Edgar, in his disguise as Poor Tom, agrees to lead Gloucester to the cliffs at which place?
(a) Avignon.
(b) London.
(c) Avon.
(d) Dover.

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

6. 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.

7. Cornwall says that Gloucester's villainy may be the cause of who's villainy?
(a) Edgar.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Kent.
(d) Goneril.

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

9. The doctor wants Lear to wake up and servants carry Lear into the doctor on what?
(a) A litter.
(b) A chair.
(c) A bed.
(d) A blanket.

10. How does Edmund die?
(a) Goneril kills him.
(b) Kent kills him.
(c) Edgar kills him.
(d) Regan kills him.

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

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

13. When Oswald leaves Goneril and Albany and returns to Regan at Cornwall, what does he carry from Goneril to Edmund?
(a) A flower.
(b) A letter.
(c) A sword.
(d) A message.

14. Who tells Gloucester that Edmund betrayed him?
(a) Cornwall.
(b) Regan.
(c) Edmund.
(d) Goneril.

15. Kent wonders how such different daughters can come from the same what?
(a) House.
(b) Father.
(c) Family.
(d) Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Regan promises a promotion to Oswald if he finds and kills who?

2. Regan suspects that Goneril and Edmund are doing what?

3. How does Goneril die?

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

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

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