King Lear Test | Final Test - Easy

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King Lear Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Goneril die?
(a) By suicide.
(b) Edmund kills her.
(c) Regan poisons her.
(d) A servant stabs her.

2. Where do Lear, The Fool, Kent, and Gloucester go when they leave the farmhouse?
(a) Dover.
(b) To Cordelia.
(c) To see a doctor.
(d) France.

3. Edgar, in his disguise as Poor Tom, agrees to lead Gloucester to the cliffs at which place?
(a) London.
(b) Dover.
(c) Avignon.
(d) Avon.

4. Edgar is left alone at the farmhouse and hopes that the King will be able to do what?
(a) Get his lands back.
(b) Live a long life.
(c) Escape.
(d) Get justice on his daughters.

5. Kent asks who not to reveal his identity?
(a) The Gentleman.
(b) The Fool.
(c) Lear.
(d) Cordelia.

6. Who kills Oswald?
(a) Edgar.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) Regan.
(d) Edmund.

7. While Lear is in the town near the French encampment, he doesn't want to see Cordelia because he feels what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Shame.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Sorrow.

8. Edgar stops in the middle of what area when he tells Gloucester that they are on a cliff?
(a) A river.
(b) A field.
(c) A barn.
(d) The forest.

9. Edmund fakes feeling what about turning in his father?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Emotional conflict

10. Who poisoned Regan?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Albany.
(c) Edmund.
(d) Goneril.

11. After Cornwall's death, who leads his army?
(a) Regan.
(b) The Marshal of Cornwall.
(c) Albany.
(d) Edmund.

12. Regan suspects that Goneril and Edmund are doing what?
(a) Having an affair.
(b) Going to kill Albany and get married.
(c) Plotting against Albany.
(d) Plotting against her.

13. Lear conducts a mock trial of his daughters; who serves as the judges?
(a) Edgar and The Fool.
(b) Kent and The Fool.
(c) Edgar and Kent.
(d) Edgar, Kent, and The Fool.

14. Why did the King of France leave the French encampment and return to France?
(a) He didn't want to see King Lear.
(b) So he wouldn't have to fight.
(c) There was important business to take care of in France.
(d) Because his life was in danger.

15. Gloucester greets the news of the English taking prisoners with what thoughts?
(a) Thoughts of hopelessness.
(b) Thoughts of rescue.
(c) Thoughts of suicide.
(d) Thoughts of sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Act 4, Scene 3 take place?

2. Albany arrests who for treason?

3. After hearing the news of Cornwall's death, Albany vows to take revenge for what act of Cornwall's?

4. Regan thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?

5. The messenger who delivers the news of Cornwall's death to Albany and Goneril also delivers a letter to Goneril from whom?

(see the answer keys)

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