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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 tells Goneril that she is becoming a monster and only her shape as a woman protects her?
(a) Albany.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) The Fool.
(d) Lear.

2. Cornwall says that Edmund will find a better what with Cornwall than with Gloucester?
(a) Life.
(b) House.
(c) Father.
(d) Relationship.

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

4. Albany arrests who for treason?
(a) Regan and Edmund.
(b) Goneril.
(c) Goneril and Edmund.
(d) Goneril and Regan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kent wonders how such different daughters can come from the same what?

2. The messenger who delivers the news of Cornwall's death to Albany and Goneril also delivers a letter to Goneril from whom?

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

4. Who kills Oswald?

5. What has to happen in order for Edgar to be reunited with his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Edgar mean when he says "Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, Than still contemned and flattered."

2. How does Cornwall punish Gloucester for his villainy?

3. In terms of the plot, what is Act 5, Scene 2 designed to do?

4. How do Edmund's actions when turning his father in to Cornwall indicate that he is dishonest?

5. What does Cordelia consider her father to be suffering from?

6. The comments of the servants to Regan after Gloucester is blinded indicate what?

7. While Lear and his party are in the farmhouse, what action does Lear take that makes him appear to be suffering from madness?

8. Goneril and Regan dismiss Albany's desire to not hurt the King and say that what matters?

9. How does Cornwall link the villainy in Edmund's family?

10. What warning does Regan ask Oswald to give to Goneril?

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