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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 do Lear, The Fool, Kent, and Gloucester go when they leave the farmhouse?
(a) Dover.
(b) To Cordelia.
(c) France.
(d) To see a doctor.

2. Who poisoned Regan?
(a) Albany.
(b) Edmund.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Goneril.

3. Lear says that wickedness is only punished in the poor and that wickedness isn't punished in the rich because they are protected by what?
(a) Their wealth.
(b) Their servants.
(c) Their status.
(d) Their homes.

4. When Gloucester is told that he is climbing a cliff, what does he complain about not hearing?
(a) Birds.
(b) A river.
(c) The wind.
(d) The sea.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Cordelia enters Act 4, Scene 4 with what instruments sounding?

3. How does Edmund die?

4. Cordelia has what quality that her sisters lack?

5. What is Edmund's response to Regan when she asks him if he slept with Goneril?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What caused Lear's madness?

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

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

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

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

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