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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who makes Lear sleep while they are in the farmhouse?
(a) Gloucester.
(b) Kent.
(c) The Fool.
(d) Fortune.

3. What is Edmund's response to Regan when she asks him if he slept with Goneril?
(a) Refusal.
(b) He ignores her.
(c) He agrees.
(d) Denial.

4. Edmund promises not to allow Albany to have mercy on whom after the battle?
(a) Lear and Cordelia.
(b) Gloucester and Edgar.
(c) Cordelia and Goneril.
(d) Lear and Edgar.

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

6. When Gloucester is told that he is climbing a cliff, what does he complain about not hearing?
(a) The wind.
(b) Birds.
(c) The sea.
(d) A river.

7. Oswald reports that Albany smiled when he heard what news?
(a) That Gloucester was punished.
(b) That the French Army had landed.
(c) That Goneril and Edmund were on their way.
(d) That the King had gone to Dover.

8. How does Edmund die?
(a) Edgar kills him.
(b) Goneril kills him.
(c) Regan kills him.
(d) Kent kills him.

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

10. 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 letter.
(d) A flower.

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

12. Who is leading a blind Gloucester into the heath?
(a) A sad man.
(b) An old man.
(c) A mad man.
(d) A poor man.

13. Goneril thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?
(a) His hands should be cut off.
(b) He should be drawn and quartered.
(c) His skin should be removed.
(d) His eyes should be plucked out.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Edmund says it will be best, and will support his story, if he finds Gloucester doing what?

3. Who was captured by the English army?

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

5. Who tells Kent of Cordelia's response to his letter?

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