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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Goneril, while King Lear is staying with her, how often does King Lear wrong her?
(a) At mealtimes with his demands.
(b) Day and night and every hour.
(c) During the day with the demands of his followers.
(d) At least once an hour.

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

3. Oswald is what relation to Goneril?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her steward.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her cousin.

4. How many of King Lear's daughters are married?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

5. Who is Gloucester's illegitimate son?
(a) Edward.
(b) Ethan.
(c) Eric.
(d) Edmund.

6. Lear says that the weather is not unkind in its actions of a storm because why?
(a) It has reason to be stormy.
(b) It simply acts as nature will.
(c) It has no reason to be obligated to him.
(d) It doesn't need any man to be a storm.

7. When Lear bemoans his treatment at Goneril's house, what does Regan say?
(a) Regan says that she will be different.
(b) Regan doesn't say anything.
(c) Regan agrees with Lear.
(d) Regan defends Goneril.

8. Gloucester orders Edgar captured and killed because Gloucester thinks Edgar did what to Edmund?
(a) Gloucester thinks Edgar stabbed Edmund.
(b) Gloucester thinks Edgar betrayed Edmund.
(c) Gloucester thinks Edgar hurt Edmund.
(d) Gloucester thinks Edgar killed Edmund.

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

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

11. Who says, "Here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool"?
(a) The King.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) Kent.
(d) The Fool.

12. 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.

13. Who is Goneril's husband?
(a) The Duke of Albany.
(b) The Duke of Kent.
(c) The Duke of France.
(d) The Duke of Burgundy.

14. The Fool calls King Lear a fool for doing what?
(a) Giving away his lands.
(b) Searching for the Fool.
(c) Leaving his palace.
(d) Hitting Oswald.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What room in the house does Act I, Scene 4 take place?

2. Oswald and Kent meet in front of what structure?

3. After Lear laments his ungrateful daughters, what begins?

4. While Lear is in the storm, who is his only companion?

5. In Act I, Scene 3, what are the names of the characters who speak?

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