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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) One of the sisters to die.
(b) He says he can enjoy them both if he is crafty.
(c) Goneril stays married to Albany.
(d) If the sisters move farther apart.

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

4. Edgar stops in the middle of what area when he tells Gloucester that they are on a cliff?
(a) A field.
(b) A river.
(c) A barn.
(d) The forest.

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

6. Cordelia enters Act 4, Scene 4 with what instruments sounding?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Horns.
(c) Trumpets.
(d) Drums.

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

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

9. When Gloucester is told that he is climbing a cliff, what does he complain about not hearing?
(a) A river.
(b) The sea.
(c) The wind.
(d) Birds.

10. Regan complains about not feeling well while fighting with whom about Edmund?
(a) Edgar.
(b) Goneril.
(c) Albany.
(d) Her father.

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

12. Who tells Goneril that she is becoming a monster and only her shape as a woman protects her?
(a) Gloucester.
(b) Lear.
(c) The Fool.
(d) Albany.

13. Oswald reports that Albany smiled when he heard what news?
(a) That Gloucester was punished.
(b) That the King had gone to Dover.
(c) That the French Army had landed.
(d) That Goneril and Edmund were on their way.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is leading a blind Gloucester into the heath?

2. Who tells Gloucester that Edmund betrayed him?

3. When Oswald leaves Goneril and Albany and returns to Regan at Cornwall, what does he carry from Goneril to Edmund?

4. Goneril thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?

5. Edmund tells a captain to kill Cordelia and make it look like what?

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