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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. When Oswald leaves Goneril and Albany and returns to Regan at Cornwall, what does he carry from Goneril to Edmund?
(a) A letter.
(b) A message.
(c) A flower.
(d) A sword.

2. The British armies are encamped near what city?
(a) Dover.
(b) London.
(c) Stratford.
(d) Avon.

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

4. Lear says that wickedness is only punished in the poor and that wickedness isn't punished in the rich because they are protected by what?
(a) Their servants.
(b) Their status.
(c) Their wealth.
(d) Their homes.

5. Edgar tells Gloucester that the person who led Gloucester to the edge of the cliff looked like a what?
(a) Demon.
(b) Boy.
(c) God.
(d) Traitor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Goneril die?

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

3. What emotion does Edgar feel when he sees that his father is blind?

4. Who makes Lear sleep while they are in the farmhouse?

5. People who see Gloucester's crippled condition are turning against whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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