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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. Kent wonders how such different daughters can come from the same what?
(a) House.
(b) Family.
(c) Father.
(d) Mother.

2. On the battlefield, Edgar sets Gloucester by a tree and tells him to pray for what?
(a) That the right side will be victorious.
(b) That his sons will survive the fight.
(c) That the English win and Lear is restored to his throne.
(d) That the French will win and Lear will be victorious.

3. Oswald reports that Albany smiled when he heard what news?
(a) That Goneril and Edmund were on their way.
(b) That Gloucester was punished.
(c) That the King had gone to Dover.
(d) That the French Army had landed.

4. The man who leads the blind Earl of Gloucester into the heath claims what relationship to the Earl?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A servant.
(c) A tenant.
(d) A man-at-arms.

5. After Cornwall's death, who leads his army?
(a) Regan.
(b) Albany.
(c) The Marshal of Cornwall.
(d) Edmund.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was captured by the English army?

2. The messenger who delivers the news of Cornwall's death to Albany and Goneril also delivers a letter to Goneril from whom?

3. Who is leading a blind Gloucester into the heath?

4. Goneril thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Lear's and Gloucester's characters parallel each other?

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

3. What warning does Regan ask Oswald to give to Goneril?

4. What caused Lear's madness?

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

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

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

8. When Goneril hears of Cornwall's death, what are her concerns?

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

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

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