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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 bed.
(b) A chair.
(c) A litter.
(d) A blanket.

2. How does Goneril die?
(a) A servant stabs her.
(b) Regan poisons her.
(c) Edmund kills her.
(d) By suicide.

3. Kent asks who not to reveal his identity?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) The Gentleman.
(c) Lear.
(d) The Fool.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edmund die?

2. When Gloucester is brought in and tied up, he asks Regan, Goneril, and Cornwall to not mistreat him because why?

3. After Cornwall's death, who leads his army?

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

5. What is Edmund's response to Regan when she asks him if he slept with Goneril?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Edgar use his father's blindness to trick him?

6. What does Edgar pray for while Lear is asleep in the farmhouse?

7. What caused Lear's madness?

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

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

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

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