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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the battle take place?
(a) On a field between the two camps.
(b) On a field behind the English encampment.
(c) On a field by the French encampment.
(d) In Dover.

3. When the King recognizes Cordelia, this is seen as a sign of what?
(a) His recovery from sickness.
(b) His recovery from madness.
(c) His recovery from exposure.
(d) His recovery from the flu.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where does Act 4, Scene 3 take place?
(a) At the French encampment.
(b) Outside the French encampment.
(c) In a town.
(d) In a forest.

10. 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) The forest.
(d) A barn.

11. 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 servants.
(b) Their status.
(c) Their homes.
(d) Their wealth.

12. When Oswald leaves Goneril and Albany and returns to Regan at Cornwall, what does he carry from Goneril to Edmund?
(a) A sword.
(b) A message.
(c) A flower.
(d) A letter.

13. How does Edgar lead the blind Gloucester from the heath to the cliffs?
(a) By his arm.
(b) By a leash.
(c) By a rope.
(d) By his voice.

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) Goneril stays married to Albany.
(b) He says he can enjoy them both if he is crafty.
(c) One of the sisters to die.
(d) If the sisters move farther apart.

15. Who states that Goneril is a better soldier than Albany?
(a) A soldier.
(b) Edmund.
(c) Cornwall.
(d) Oswald.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gloucester tries to commit suicide by doing what?

2. How does Goneril die?

3. What emotion does Edgar feel when he sees that his father is blind?

4. Who gives Edmund the office of Earl of Gloucester?

5. A servant draws his sword on Cornwall because of what action?

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