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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who protests punishing Kent without the King's consent?
(a) Edmund.
(b) Goneril.
(c) Oswald.
(d) Gloucester.

2. In Act I, Scene 3, what are the names of the characters who speak?
(a) King Lear and Goneril.
(b) Goneril and Oswald.
(c) Goneril, Oswald, and King Lear.
(d) King Lear and Oswald.

3. Who is Goneril's husband?
(a) The Duke of Burgundy.
(b) The Duke of Albany.
(c) The Duke of France.
(d) The Duke of Kent.

4. Goneril and Regan believe that the King's banishment of the man who defended Cordelia against being disinherited was what?
(a) Logical.
(b) Rash.
(c) Hasty.
(d) Sound.

5. Who says, "Here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool"?
(a) Kent.
(b) The Fool.
(c) The King.
(d) Gloucester.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gloucester blames the effects of what for affecting relationships?

2. When Lear bemoans his treatment at Goneril's house, what does Regan say?

3. Curan holds what position in society?

4. What does Kent give to the gentleman to show Cordelia?

5. Edmund cuts his arm with what weapon after he and Edgar pretend to fight?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can King Lear's son-in-laws not tell who Lear loves best in the beginning of the play?

2. Goneril wants King Lear to leave her home and go where?

3. What request, by Goneril, drives the King to leave her house?

4. When Lear arrives at Regan's castle, what is one of the actions Regan takes to show that she is selfish?

5. Gloucester asks Edmund to tell anyone who asks for him that he is sick, but what does Edmund plan to do instead?

6. How is King Lear going to divide up his kingdom?

7. How does Edmund incite his father into a rage against Edgar?

8. The Fool's ambiguous statements while he and Lear are wandering in the storm imply that the Fool thinks Lear is what?

9. Why is King Lear dividing up his kingdom?

10. Instead of explaining why he attacked Oswald, what does Kent say?

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