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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lear refuses to leave the storm and go to safety without whom?
(a) Kent.
(b) The Fool.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Edgar.

2. Who tells Kent of Cordelia's response to his letter?
(a) A gentleman.
(b) An officer.
(c) The Marshal of France.
(d) A soldier.

3. Who brings Cornwall the news that Gloucester has taken the King to Dover?
(a) Oswald.
(b) A gentleman.
(c) Kent.
(d) A spy.

4. Who tells Goneril that she is becoming a monster and only her shape as a woman protects her?
(a) Albany.
(b) The Fool.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) Lear.

5. Goneril and Regan believe that the King's banishment of the man who defended Cordelia against being disinherited was what?
(a) Rash.
(b) Logical.
(c) Hasty.
(d) Sound.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives Edmund the office of Earl of Gloucester?

2. What did Oswald's letter from Goneril cause Regan and Cornwall to do?

3. Why does Edmund want his legitimate brother disinherited?

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

5. While King Lear is staying with Goneril, she complains that his knights are doing what?

(see the answer key)

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