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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event caused the Fool to pine away?
(a) The King leaving his palace.
(b) The King going to Goneril's home.
(c) Cordelia leaving for France.
(d) Cordelia not professing her love for the King.

2. King Lear has brought how many servants and knights to stay with Goneril?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) Four hundred.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) One hundred.

3. Where does Act I, Scene 3 take place?
(a) Goneril's summer home.
(b) The Duke of Burgundy's palace.
(c) The King's palace.
(d) The Duke of Albany's palace.

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

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

6. Who calls the hovel haunted?
(a) Kent.
(b) The Fool.
(c) Edgar.
(d) The King.

7. Gloucester tells Edmund there has been a falling out between which two dukes?
(a) Albany and Cornwall.
(b) Burgundy and Albany.
(c) Cornwall and Burgundy.
(d) Albany and Camelot.

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

9. Kent tells the gentleman of a coming conflict between Albany and Cornwall and asks the gentleman to take the report to where?
(a) Camelot.
(b) Dover.
(c) France.
(d) London.

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

11. Who says, "I am a man / More sinned against than sinning" ?
(a) Lear.
(b) Kent.
(c) The Fool.
(d) Gloucester.

12. Instead of calling Edgar mad, Lear gives him what title?
(a) Fool.
(b) Wise man.
(c) Poet.
(d) Philosopher.

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

14. 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.

15. Where is King Lear going to go when he leaves Goneril's house?
(a) His summer home.
(b) His palace.
(c) France.
(d) Regan's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who delivers King Lear's letter to his other daughter, while the King is at Goneril's?

2. Who is Goneril's husband?

3. Goneril and Cornwall order Gloucester to do what if Lear returns to the castle?

4. Why does Edmund want his legitimate brother disinherited?

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

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