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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. After hearing the news of Cornwall's death, Albany vows to take revenge for what act of Cornwall's?
(a) The blinding of Gloucester.
(b) The escape of the King.
(c) Not keeping the women out of the plans.
(d) Not keeping Goneril at Cornwall.

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

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

4. When Goneril and Edmund travel to Albany's palace, what happens between them?
(a) They fall in love.
(b) They have an affair.
(c) They become friends.
(d) They hate each other.

5. The messenger who delivers the news of Cornwall's death to Albany and Goneril also delivers a letter to Goneril from whom?
(a) Regan.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) Lear.
(d) Edmund.

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

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

4. Edgar is left alone at the farmhouse and hopes that the King will be able to do what?

5. What does Edgar give Albany in the British encampment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

8. In terms of the plot, the description of Cordelia's response to Kent's letter paves the way for what?

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

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

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