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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Albany arrests who for treason?
(a) Goneril and Edmund.
(b) Regan and Edmund.
(c) Goneril and Regan.
(d) Goneril.

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

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

5. 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) He says he can enjoy them both if he is crafty.
(c) If the sisters move farther apart.
(d) One of the sisters to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Kent of Cordelia's response to his letter?

2. Who tells Goneril that she is becoming a monster and only her shape as a woman protects her?

3. Who confirms the death of Cornwall to Cordelia and the doctor?

4. The British armies are encamped near what city?

5. Why did the King of France leave the French encampment and return to France?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Goneril hears of Cornwall's death, what are her concerns?

2. Who opposes Albany's position with the King?

3. The comments of the servants to Regan after Gloucester is blinded indicate what?

4. Albany already sympathizes with the King. What action by Goneril is likely to make him turn completely against her?

5. Although Lear does not want to see Cordelia, what is Cordelia's goal?

6. How does Cornwall link the villainy in Edmund's family?

7. Goneril and Regan dismiss Albany's desire to not hurt the King and say that what matters?

8. How is Lear able to recover from his madness?

9. When Edgar sees that his father is blind, what does he offer to do?

10. What does Edgar mean when he says "Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, Than still contemned and flattered."

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