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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 tells Kent of a plot against the King?
(a) His dreams.
(b) A gentleman.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) The stars.

2. How does Edmund die?
(a) Regan kills him.
(b) Kent kills him.
(c) Edgar kills him.
(d) Goneril kills him.

3. Who makes Lear sleep while they are in the farmhouse?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Kent.
(c) The Fool.
(d) Gloucester.

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

5. When told of the death of Cornwall, Albany says the death was what?
(a) Needful.
(b) Justice.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Fair.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On the battlefield, Edgar sets Gloucester by a tree and tells him to pray for what?

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

4. When Gloucester is told that he is climbing a cliff, what does he complain about not hearing?

5. Regan thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who opposes Albany's position with the King?

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

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

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

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

6. How do Lear's and Gloucester's characters parallel each other?

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

8. How do Edmund's actions when turning his father in to Cornwall indicate that he is dishonest?

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

10. In terms of the plot, the description of Cordelia's response to Kent's letter paves the way for what?

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