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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many daughters does King Lear have?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

2. When Lear sees Kent in the stocks, he asks Kent what question?
(a) He asks if Kent has slept.
(b) He asks if Kent hurt anyone.
(c) He asks if Kent is amusing himself.
(d) He asks if Kent likes being in the stocks.

3. Edgar hides in what location to escape his pursuers?
(a) In tree branches.
(b) Under a bush.
(c) A hollow of a tree.
(d) An abandoned shack.

4. Where does Act I, Scene 3 take place?
(a) The King's palace.
(b) The Duke of Albany's palace.
(c) Goneril's summer home.
(d) The Duke of Burgundy's palace.

5. What are the rumors that Curan tells Edmund?
(a) Rumors of war between the Duke of Cornwall and the Duke of Albany.
(b) Rumors of war between Fance and England.
(c) Rumors of war between Lear and Burgundy.
(d) Rumors of war between Lear and the Duke of Albany.

6. Who are the three speakers in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Gloucester, Edgar, and Edmund.
(b) Edgar Curan, and Gloucester.
(c) Edmund, Curan, and Edgar.
(d) Edmund Curan, and Gloucester.

7. Lear says the anguish of the storm distracts him from what?
(a) The hearbreak of making bad choices.
(b) The heartbreak of losing Cordelia.
(c) The heartbreak of his daughters' treachery.
(d) The heartbreak of losing his kingdom.

8. When Edmund tells his brother that his father is horribly angry with him, what does Edmund advise his brother to do?
(a) Leave England until Gloucester cools off.
(b) Stay away from Gloucester until he cools off.
(c) Write a letter to Gloucester to explain things.
(d) Go and talk to Gloucester to cool him off.

9. Lear states that Edgar is the natural man, after his ravings, because of what?
(a) Edgar is unburdened by heartache.
(b) Edgar is mad.
(c) Edgar owes nobody anything.
(d) Edgar is letting his own mind run free.

10. Who is Edmund's father?
(a) Kent.
(b) Burgundy.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Gloucester.

11. How many suitors does Cordelia have when the King tells them that she will have no dowry?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

12. Who says: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child"
(a) The Fool.
(b) King Lear.
(c) The Duke of Burgundy.
(d) Goneril.

13. How much love does Cordelia say she will give her husband?
(a) All her love.
(b) Half her love.
(c) Some of her love.
(d) None of her love.

14. Who does Lear say should feel obligation to him?
(a) His son-in-laws.
(b) His daughters.
(c) His servants.
(d) His kingdom.

15. What punishment will King Lear give to the Fool for lying?
(a) Dismissal as Fool.
(b) Prison.
(c) A caning.
(d) A whipping.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gloucester's illegitimate son?

2. When Kent says: "but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master," what quality is he referring to?

3. While Kent warns the gentleman of the coming conflict between Albany and Cornwall, what are the spies of France doing?

4. Who does Kent ask to "turn thy wheel"?

5. In the first scene, an attendant is carrying a small crown meant for whom?

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