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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 makes Lear sleep while they are in the farmhouse?
(a) Fortune.
(b) The Fool.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) Kent.

2. Lear conducts a mock trial of his daughters; who serves as the judges?
(a) Edgar and The Fool.
(b) Kent and The Fool.
(c) Edgar, Kent, and The Fool.
(d) Edgar and Kent.

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

4. Who gives Edmund the office of Earl of Gloucester?
(a) The Duke of Cornwall.
(b) The Duke of Burgundy.
(c) The Duke of Albany.
(d) Goneril and Regan.

5. Edgar stops in the middle of what area when he tells Gloucester that they are on a cliff?
(a) A river.
(b) A field.
(c) A barn.
(d) The forest.

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. Edgar, in his disguise as Poor Tom, agrees to lead Gloucester to the cliffs at which place?

3. The stage directions have the battle between the English and the French taking place where?

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

5. Edmund tells a captain to kill Cordelia and make it look like what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who opposes Albany's position with the King?

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

3. Although Lear does not want to see Cordelia, what is Cordelia's goal?

4. How is Lear able to recover from his madness?

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

6. What caused Lear's madness?

7. At the end of the play, why is Lear happy?

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

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

10. What happens to Cordelia, Regan, and Goneril by the end of the play?

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