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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The doctor wants Lear to wake up and servants carry Lear into the doctor on what?
(a) A litter.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A chair.
(d) A bed.

4. Regan promises a promotion to Oswald if he finds and kills who?
(a) Goneril.
(b) Lear.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) Edmund.

5. The British armies are encamped near what city?
(a) Stratford.
(b) Dover.
(c) London.
(d) Avon.

6. Who tells Goneril that she is becoming a monster and only her shape as a woman protects her?
(a) Albany.
(b) Lear.
(c) The Fool.
(d) Gloucester.

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

8. Who loses the battle according to the news Edgar brings?
(a) The French.
(b) Lear.
(c) Albany.
(d) Cordelia.

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

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

11. 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.

12. Lear says that wickedness is only punished in the poor and that wickedness isn't punished in the rich because they are protected by what?
(a) Their wealth.
(b) Their status.
(c) Their homes.
(d) Their servants.

13. What has to happen in order for Edgar to be reunited with his father?
(a) Edgar has to find his father.
(b) Edgar has to not be mad.
(c) Edgar must repent of his actions.
(d) Edgar's innocence has to be proven.

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

15. Who tells Gloucester that Edmund betrayed him?
(a) Cornwall.
(b) Goneril.
(c) Regan.
(d) Edmund.

Short Answer Questions

1. Edmund fakes feeling what about turning in his father?

2. Cordelia says she is guiding the French army against the English only because of what?

3. Edgar, in his disguise as Poor Tom, agrees to lead Gloucester to the cliffs at which place?

4. Since she is widowed, Regan expects Edmund to do what?

5. Cordelia says that France is not fighting the English with which motivation?

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