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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. Regan thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Prison.
(c) The stocks.
(d) Beheading.

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

3. Edmund promises not to allow Albany to have mercy on whom after the battle?
(a) Gloucester and Edgar.
(b) Cordelia and Goneril.
(c) Lear and Cordelia.
(d) Lear and Edgar.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who confirms the death of Cornwall to Cordelia and the doctor?

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

3. Who brings Cornwall the news that Gloucester has taken the King to Dover?

4. Where do Lear, The Fool, Kent, and Gloucester go when they leave the farmhouse?

5. When Gloucester is brought in and tied up, he asks Regan, Goneril, and Cornwall to not mistreat him because why?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Albany already sympathizes with the King. What action by Goneril is likely to make him turn completely against her?

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