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

2. Who tells Gloucester that Edmund betrayed him?
(a) Goneril.
(b) Regan.
(c) Cornwall.
(d) Edmund.

3. Who confirms the death of Cornwall to Cordelia and the doctor?
(a) Edgar.
(b) Lear.
(c) Kent.
(d) Edmund.

4. What emotion does Edgar feel when he sees that his father is blind?
(a) Fear.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Horror.

5. Regan suspects that Goneril and Edmund are doing what?
(a) Plotting against Albany.
(b) Going to kill Albany and get married.
(c) Having an affair.
(d) Plotting against her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes Lear sleep while they are in the farmhouse?

2. How does Edgar lead the blind Gloucester from the heath to the cliffs?

3. While Lear is in the town near the French encampment, he doesn't want to see Cordelia because he feels what?

4. When told of the death of Cornwall, Albany says the death was what?

5. Albany comes to the British encampment and says that the King is with Cordelia where?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When Edgar sees that his father is blind, what does he offer to do?

7. What does Edgar pray for while Lear is asleep in the farmhouse?

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

9. How does Edgar use his father's blindness to trick him?

10. What caused Lear's madness?

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