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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While King Lear is staying with Goneril, she complains that his knights are doing what?
(a) Eating too much food.
(b) Interfering with her household.
(c) Taking up too much space.
(d) Causing problems with the children.

2. What sound precedes the King's entrance into a scene?
(a) A herald's announcement.
(b) Footfalls.
(c) Horns.
(d) Hoofbeats.

3. The Fool calls King Lear a fool for doing what?
(a) Searching for the Fool.
(b) Leaving his palace.
(c) Hitting Oswald.
(d) Giving away his lands.

4. To aide in his disguise, what does Edgar do to his hair?
(a) He shaves it all off.
(b) He rubs mud in it.
(c) He knots it.
(d) He cuts it.

5. What are the rumors that Curan tells Edmund?
(a) Rumors of war between Lear and Burgundy.
(b) Rumors of war between Fance and England.
(c) Rumors of war between Lear and the Duke of Albany.
(d) Rumors of war between the Duke of Cornwall and the Duke of Albany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oswald is what relation to Goneril?

2. Gloucester orders Edgar captured and killed because Gloucester thinks Edgar did what to Edmund?

3. What do Regan and Goneril believe is affecting the King's mind?

4. When Kent says: "but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master," what quality is he referring to?

5. What is the name Edgar uses in place of his own?

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