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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Act 3, Scene 5 take place?
(a) Cornwall's castle.
(b) Cornwall's castle.
(c) Gloucester's castle.
(d) Gloucester's courtyard.

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

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

6. When Goneril and Edmund travel to Albany's palace, what happens between them?
(a) They hate each other.
(b) They fall in love.
(c) They become friends.
(d) They have an affair.

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

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

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

10. Who brings Cordelia the news that the British armies are marching towards them?
(a) An officer.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A messenger.
(d) A gentleman.

11. Who poisoned Regan?
(a) Edmund.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Albany.
(d) Goneril.

12. 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 river.
(d) A barn.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Goneril thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?

4. The British armies are encamped near what city?

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

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