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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kent asks who not to reveal his identity?
(a) The Fool.
(b) The Gentleman.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Lear.

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

3. Gloucester greets the news of the English taking prisoners with what thoughts?
(a) Thoughts of rescue.
(b) Thoughts of hopelessness.
(c) Thoughts of suicide.
(d) Thoughts of sadness.

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

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

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

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

8. The messenger who delivers the news of Cornwall's death to Albany and Goneril also delivers a letter to Goneril from whom?
(a) Lear.
(b) Regan.
(c) Edmund.
(d) Gloucester.

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

10. Who brings Cornwall the news that Gloucester has taken the King to Dover?
(a) A gentleman.
(b) A spy.
(c) Kent.
(d) Oswald.

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

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

13. Where do Lear, The Fool, Kent, and Gloucester go when they leave the farmhouse?
(a) To Cordelia.
(b) Dover.
(c) France.
(d) To see a doctor.

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

15. Why did the King of France leave the French encampment and return to France?
(a) He didn't want to see King Lear.
(b) There was important business to take care of in France.
(c) So he wouldn't have to fight.
(d) Because his life was in danger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, / Than still contemned and flattered"?

2. Who tells Kent of a plot against the King?

3. Where does Act 4, Scene 3 take place?

4. Who tells Gloucester that Edmund betrayed him?

5. On the battlefield, Edgar sets Gloucester by a tree and tells him to pray for what?

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