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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Edgar lead the blind Gloucester from the heath to the cliffs?

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

4. Who states that Goneril is a better soldier than Albany?

5. What does Edgar give Albany in the British encampment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What caused Lear's madness?

3. What plants the seeds of discord between Goneril and Regan?

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

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

6. What warning does Regan ask Oswald to give to Goneril?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the characters of Regan and Goneril change from the moment that they are first introduced until their deaths? Are their deaths just? Please support your answer with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the text, what are the connections between the main plot and the subplot in the play?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the book, how does King Lear move toward a greater knowledge of the world and himself through his actions and experiences? Please use examples from the text to support your answer.

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