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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. Edmund is going to betray Gloucester to whom?
(a) The King.
(b) The Earl.
(c) The knights.
(d) The Duke.

2. Lear refuses to leave the storm and go to safety without whom?
(a) Kent.
(b) The Fool.
(c) Edgar.
(d) Cordelia.

3. In order to escape detection, Edgar decides to disguise himself as what?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A servant.
(c) A carpenter.
(d) A madman.

4. Kent points out that there is a hovel nearby and asks the King to do what?
(a) Take shelter in it.
(b) Go dry out in it.
(c) Clean it.
(d) Sit by the fire in it.

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. King Lear is trying to find his fool who has been missing for how long?

2. What is the name of Edmund's legitimate brother?

3. Regan and Goneril tell Lear that he is what type of a man?

4. Where does Act 1, Scene 5 take place?

5. Gloucester tells Edmund to say what if someone asks about Gloucester?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are Goneril and Regan awarded large parts of the kingdom?

3. What information does Kent want the gentleman to take to Dover?

4. How are Goneril and Regan shown to be disloyal daughters in the play?

5. When Edgar leaves Edmund at the end of Act I, Scene II, why does Edmund laugh?

6. What does the letter Edmund has, that is supposedly from Edgar, say?

7. Why does Edmund bemoan the fact that he is illegitimate?

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

9. Goneril complains to Oswald about her father's behavior for what reason?

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

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