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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gloucester tries to commit suicide by doing what?
(a) Lighting himself on fire.
(b) Jumping off a cliff.
(c) Hanging himself.
(d) Stabbing himself.

2. Who says "Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, / Than still contemned and flattered"?
(a) Regan.
(b) Lear.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) Edgar.

3. The man who leads the blind Earl of Gloucester into the heath claims what relationship to the Earl?
(a) A servant.
(b) A man-at-arms.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A tenant.

4. What does Edgar give Albany in the British encampment?
(a) A letter from Goneril to Edmund.
(b) A letter from Goneril to Cornwall.
(c) A letter from Goneril to the King of France.
(d) A letter from Goneril to Edgar.

5. The stage directions have the battle between the English and the French taking place where?
(a) In the back of the stage.
(b) Off stage.
(c) To the right of where Gloucester sits.
(d) On the whole stage.

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

7. Cordelia says that France is not fighting the English with which motivation?
(a) Land.
(b) Greed.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Property.

8. After hearing the news of Cornwall's death, Albany vows to take revenge for what act of Cornwall's?
(a) The blinding of Gloucester.
(b) Not keeping Goneril at Cornwall.
(c) The escape of the King.
(d) Not keeping the women out of the plans.

9. Cordelia says she is guiding the French army against the English only because of what?
(a) Her annoyance at her sisters.
(b) Her desire for land.
(c) Her love for her father.
(d) Her desire to oust her sisters.

10. Who tells Kent of a plot against the King?
(a) Gloucester.
(b) A gentleman.
(c) The stars.
(d) His dreams.

11. Albany arrests who for treason?
(a) Goneril.
(b) Regan and Edmund.
(c) Goneril and Regan.
(d) Goneril and Edmund.

12. What emotion does Edgar feel when he sees that his father is blind?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Fear.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Horror.

13. On the battlefield, Edgar sets Gloucester by a tree and tells him to pray for what?
(a) That his sons will survive the fight.
(b) That the English win and Lear is restored to his throne.
(c) That the right side will be victorious.
(d) That the French will win and Lear will be victorious.

14. Edmund laments promising himself to both sisters and figures out that the only way he is going to enjoy one of them is for what to happen?
(a) One of the sisters to die.
(b) If the sisters move farther apart.
(c) He says he can enjoy them both if he is crafty.
(d) Goneril stays married to Albany.

15. Albany comes to the British encampment and says that the King is with Cordelia where?
(a) At the castle.
(b) In the nearby forest.
(c) In the town.
(d) In the French encampment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the King of France leave the French encampment and return to France?

2. When Oswald leaves Goneril and Albany and returns to Regan at Cornwall, what does he carry from Goneril to Edmund?

3. Goneril thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?

4. When the King of France leaves the French encampment, who does he leave in charge?

5. Regan complains about not feeling well while fighting with whom about Edmund?

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