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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is King Lear going to go when he leaves Goneril's house?

2. How does Edmund characterize the belief that people having in the stars and planets ruling their lives?

3. After Lear laments his ungrateful daughters, what begins?

4. Who says: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child"

5. How many of King Lear's daughters are married?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the letter Edmund has, that is supposedly from Edgar, say?

2. Goneril complains to Oswald about her father's behavior for what reason?

3. What is the point of Act 2, Scene 3?

4. How is King Lear going to divide up his kingdom?

5. What act of nature is ravaging the earth and Lear?

6. What actions of the King does Gloucester fret about in Act I, Scene II?

7. When Kent meets with the gentleman on the heath, what does Kent give the gentleman and what is it supposed to do?

8. When Lear arrives at Regan's castle, what is one of the actions Regan takes to show that she is selfish?

9. After Regan and Cornwall order Gloucester not to let the King back into the castle, Gloucester tells Edmund that he plans to do what?

10. Before Lear and his retinue depart for Regan's house, what does the Fool tell Lear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the text, what are the connections between the main plot and the subplot in the play?

Essay Topic 2

How does King Lear portray service? Who serves? What sort of authority and relationships are related to service in the play? Does service, as used in the play, belong to family or to the state? Why? Please support your answer with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Blindness is a theme throughout King Lear. Where is this theme in evidence in the play, what different kinds of blindness are present in the play, and how does blindness effect the play? Please support your answer with examples from the text.

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