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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the doctor prescribe to help cure Lear's madness?
(a) Sleep and rest.
(b) Cold water baths.
(c) Nothing can cure madness.
(d) Herbs and walking.

2. Cordelia enters Act 4, Scene 4 with what instruments sounding?
(a) Drums.
(b) Horns.
(c) Trumpets.
(d) Nothing.

3. Who protests punishing Kent without the King's consent?
(a) Edmund.
(b) Oswald.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) Goneril.

4. Oswald and Kent meet in front of what structure?
(a) Albany's castle.
(b) Albany's stable.
(c) Gloucester's stable.
(d) Gloucester's castle.

5. Who carries a torch and finds the King and company in the forest?
(a) Goneril.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) Cornwall.
(d) Regan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of calling Edgar mad, Lear gives him what title?

2. Kent repeatedly calls Oswald by what name?

3. Cordelia says she is guiding the French army against the English only because of what?

4. Cornwall and Regan administer what punishment to Kent?

5. Who brings Cordelia the news that the British armies are marching towards them?

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