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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. Where does Act 4, Scene 3 take place?
(a) At the French encampment.
(b) Outside the French encampment.
(c) In a forest.
(d) In a town.

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

3. What is Edmund's response to Regan when she asks him if he slept with Goneril?
(a) He agrees.
(b) Denial.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) Refusal.

4. Who tells Kent of Cordelia's response to his letter?
(a) The Marshal of France.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A gentleman.
(d) An officer.

5. How does Edgar lead the blind Gloucester from the heath to the cliffs?
(a) By a rope.
(b) By his voice.
(c) By his arm.
(d) By a leash.

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

3. Since she is widowed, Regan expects Edmund to do what?

4. Gloucester tries to commit suicide by doing what?

5. Where does Act 3, Scene 5 take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Cordelia respond to Kent's letter, according to the gentleman?

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

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

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. How does Cornwall punish Gloucester for his villainy?

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

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

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

10. Gloucester meets the news of Lear and Cordelia's capture with what?

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