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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Cordelia has what quality that her sisters lack?
(a) Greed.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Pride.

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

7. Regan complains about not feeling well while fighting with whom about Edmund?
(a) Edgar.
(b) Her father.
(c) Goneril.
(d) Albany.

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

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

10. Edmund tells a captain to kill Cordelia and make it look like what?
(a) Regan did it.
(b) An accident.
(c) Her father did it.
(d) Suicide.

11. Regan thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?
(a) The stocks.
(b) Prison.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Beheading.

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

13. Who gives Edmund the office of Earl of Gloucester?
(a) The Duke of Burgundy.
(b) The Duke of Albany.
(c) Goneril and Regan.
(d) The Duke of Cornwall.

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

15. Edgar tells Gloucester that the person who led Gloucester to the edge of the cliff looked like a what?
(a) God.
(b) Boy.
(c) Demon.
(d) Traitor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lear conducts a mock trial of his daughters; who serves as the judges?

2. Where does Act 3, Scene 5 take place?

3. How does Edgar lead the blind Gloucester from the heath to the cliffs?

4. Cornwall says that Gloucester's villainy may be the cause of who's villainy?

5. Cornwall says that Edmund will find a better what with Cornwall than with Gloucester?

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