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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. Who gives Edmund the office of Earl of Gloucester?
(a) Goneril and Regan.
(b) The Duke of Albany.
(c) The Duke of Cornwall.
(d) The Duke of Burgundy.

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

3. 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.

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

5. The stage directions have the battle between the English and the French taking place where?
(a) To the right of where Gloucester sits.
(b) Off stage.
(c) On the whole stage.
(d) In the back of the stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cordelia says that France is not fighting the English with which motivation?

2. What does the doctor prescribe to help cure Lear's madness?

3. Edgar stops in the middle of what area when he tells Gloucester that they are on a cliff?

4. Cornwall says that Gloucester's villainy may be the cause of who's villainy?

5. Where does Act 3, Scene 5 take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In terms of the plot, what is Act 5, Scene 2 designed to do?

6. At the end of the play, why is Lear happy?

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

8. While Lear and his party are in the farmhouse, what action does Lear take that makes him appear to be suffering from madness?

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

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

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