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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. Gloucester tries to commit suicide by doing what?
(a) Lighting himself on fire.
(b) Stabbing himself.
(c) Jumping off a cliff.
(d) Hanging himself.

2. Who kills Oswald?
(a) Edgar.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) Regan.
(d) Edmund.

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

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

5. What has to happen in order for Edgar to be reunited with his father?
(a) Edgar's innocence has to be proven.
(b) Edgar has to not be mad.
(c) Edgar must repent of his actions.
(d) Edgar has to find his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Lear is in the town near the French encampment, he doesn't want to see Cordelia because he feels what?

2. When the King of France leaves the French encampment, who does he leave in charge?

3. Who tells Gloucester that Edmund betrayed him?

4. Who brings Cornwall the news that Gloucester has taken the King to Dover?

5. Edmund promises not to allow Albany to have mercy on whom after the battle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Cordelia respond to Kent's letter, according to the gentleman?

4. Gloucester meets the news of Lear and Cordelia's capture with what?

5. How does Cornwall punish Gloucester for his villainy?

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

7. What caused Lear's madness?

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

9. What does Cordelia consider her father to be suffering from?

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

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