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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom is Gloucester loyal?
(a) Duke of Albany.
(b) The King.
(c) Himself.
(d) Duke of Cornwall.

3. Gloucester blames the effects of what for affecting relationships?
(a) The planets.
(b) The moon.
(c) The eclipses.
(d) The stars.

4. If Edmund cannot get his brother disinherited, how much of his father's inheritance will Edmund inherit?
(a) One-third.
(b) Half.
(c) One-fourth.
(d) None.

5. In Act I, Scene 3, what are the names of the characters who speak?
(a) King Lear and Goneril.
(b) Goneril, Oswald, and King Lear.
(c) King Lear and Oswald.
(d) Goneril and Oswald.

6. After Lear laments his ungrateful daughters, what begins?
(a) A storm.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) Snow.
(d) An earthquake.

7. What sound precedes the King's entrance into a scene?
(a) Footfalls.
(b) A herald's announcement.
(c) Hoofbeats.
(d) Horns.

8. Who delivers King Lear's letter to his other daughter, while the King is at Goneril's?
(a) Kent.
(b) The Fool.
(c) A knight.
(d) Oswald.

9. Gloucester tells Edmund to say what if someone asks about Gloucester?
(a) That Gloucester is out of town.
(b) That Gloucester is away.
(c) That Gloucester is sick.
(d) That Gloucester is not home.

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

11. How does Edmund characterize the belief that people having in the stars and planets ruling their lives?
(a) As preposterous.
(b) As superstitious.
(c) As truth.
(d) As genuine.

12. Who says: "Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise"
(a) Goneril.
(b) The Fool.
(c) Regan.
(d) King Lear.

13. What did Oswald's letter from Goneril cause Regan and Cornwall to do?
(a) Go hunting for food.
(b) Leave for the King's castle.
(c) Immediately depart.
(d) Stay and clean.

14. When Kent says: "but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master," what quality is he referring to?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Authority.
(d) Knowledge.

15. Goneril and Cornwall order Gloucester to do what if Lear returns to the castle?
(a) Allow him into the stables only.
(b) Strip him of anything valuable.
(c) Make sure he doesn't have any servants with him.
(d) Not allow him in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event caused the Fool to pine away?

2. Who are the three speakers in Act 2, Scene 1?

3. During the first scene of Act 3, what are the armies of France ready to do?

4. Lear refuses to leave the storm and go to safety without whom?

5. What does Oswald say after Kent draws his sword?

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