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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many suitors does Cordelia have when the King tells them that she will have no dowry?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

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

5. While Lear is in the storm, who is his only companion?
(a) No one.
(b) Kent.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) The Fool.

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

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

8. What is the name of the person who stands up for Cordelia when her father disinherits her?
(a) Albany.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) Burgundy.
(d) Kent.

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

10. When Cordelia refuses to profess her undying love for her father (the King), what does her father do?
(a) Her father disowns her.
(b) Her father yells at her.
(c) Her father takes back the jewels.
(d) Her father hits her.

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

12. 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) Wisdom.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Authority.

13. How much love does Cordelia say she will give her husband?
(a) None of her love.
(b) All her love.
(c) Some of her love.
(d) Half her love.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Goneril and Regan believe that the King's banishment of the man who defended Cordelia against being disinherited was what?

2. Where does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?

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

4. Before leaving Goneril's house, what does the Fool warn King Lear about?

5. Instead of calling Edgar mad, Lear gives him what title?

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