King Lear Test | Final Test - Easy

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King Lear Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kent wonders how such different daughters can come from the same what?
(a) Mother.
(b) Father.
(c) House.
(d) Family.

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

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

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

5. When told of the death of Cornwall, Albany says the death was what?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Needful.
(c) Fair.
(d) Justice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. While Lear is in the town near the French encampment, he doesn't want to see Cordelia because he feels what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Shame.

13. A servant draws his sword on Cornwall because of what action?
(a) Because Cornwall tied Gloucester to a chair.
(b) Because Cornwall accused Gloucester of being a traitor.
(c) Because Cornwall stabbed Gloucester.
(d) Because Cornwall gouged out one of Gloucester's eyes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Oswald leaves Goneril and Albany and returns to Regan at Cornwall, what does he carry from Goneril to Edmund?

2. Who brings Cordelia the news that the British armies are marching towards them?

3. Gloucester greets the news of the English taking prisoners with what thoughts?

4. Who loses the battle according to the news Edgar brings?

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

(see the answer keys)

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