King Lear Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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King Lear Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Cornwall and Regan administer what punishment to Kent?
(a) They whip him.
(b) They beat him.
(c) They hang him.
(d) They put him in the stocks.

3. What is the name Edgar uses in place of his own?
(a) Poor Thomas.
(b) Poor Tom.
(c) Poor Man.
(d) Poor Kent.

4. What is Edmund going to do in order to assure Gloucester that his brother's intent isn't to hurt Gloucester?
(a) Talk with Edgar so that Gloucester can hear them.
(b) Talk with Edgar and report to Gloucester.
(c) Write a letter asking Edgar what his intent is.
(d) Send someone to spy on Edgar.

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

6. Regan and Goneril tell Lear that he is what type of a man?
(a) Old.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Mad.

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

8. Goneril and Regan believe that the King's banishment of the man who defended Cordelia against being disinherited was what?
(a) Rash.
(b) Logical.
(c) Sound.
(d) Hasty.

9. Where does Act 3, Scene 3 take place?
(a) Gloucester's stable.
(b) Gloucester's hall.
(c) Gloucester's courtyard.
(d) Gloucester's castle.

10. Goneril's goal is to have King Lear go and stay with whom, rather than stay at her house?
(a) His summer palace.
(b) Her brother's house.
(c) Her sister's house.
(d) His palace.

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

12. The paper Edmund has, which he is going to show to Gloucester as proof of his brother's treachery, says that the older generation should do what with their riches?
(a) Give them to the poor.
(b) Use them to benefit their children.
(c) Hold onto them.
(d) Give them to the younger men.

13. Lear refuses to leave the storm and go to safety without whom?
(a) Kent.
(b) Edgar.
(c) The Fool.
(d) Cordelia.

14. Edmund is going to betray Gloucester to whom?
(a) The King.
(b) The knights.
(c) The Duke.
(d) The Earl.

15. Edmund cuts his arm with what weapon after he and Edgar pretend to fight?
(a) A knife.
(b) A dagger.
(c) An arrow.
(d) A sword.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lear sees Kent in the stocks, he asks Kent what question?

2. Who says: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child"

3. In order to escape detection, Edgar decides to disguise himself as what?

4. What did Oswald's letter from Goneril cause Regan and Cornwall to do?

5. Lear says that the weather is not unkind in its actions of a storm because why?

(see the answer keys)

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