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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was captured by the English army?
(a) Cordelia and the Marshal of France.
(b) Kent and Lear.
(c) Lear and the Marshal of France.
(d) Lear and Cordelia.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Cordelia prays that Lear will recover from what?
(a) His madness.
(b) His suicidal tendancy.
(c) His regrets.
(d) His depression.

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

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

11. When Gloucester is brought in and tied up, he asks Regan, Goneril, and Cornwall to not mistreat him because why?
(a) Because they are his guests.
(b) Because they are related to him.
(c) Because they are human.
(d) Because he helped their father.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who confirms the death of Cornwall to Cordelia and the doctor?

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

4. When the King recognizes Cordelia, this is seen as a sign of what?

5. The man who leads the blind Earl of Gloucester into the heath claims what relationship to the Earl?

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