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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who tells Gloucester that Edmund betrayed him?
(a) Goneril.
(b) Regan.
(c) Edmund.
(d) Cornwall.

3. Who delivers King Lear's letter to his other daughter, while the King is at Goneril's?
(a) Oswald.
(b) A knight.
(c) The Fool.
(d) Kent.

4. While they are walking to the hovel, the Fool utters a prophecy that says what?
(a) England is going to be conquered by France.
(b) England is in confusion.
(c) England will be divided.
(d) England will once again be Lear's.

5. Who says "Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, / Than still contemned and flattered"?
(a) Lear.
(b) Regan.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) Edgar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the three speakers in Act 2, Scene 1?

2. Who calls the hovel haunted?

3. The messenger who delivers the news of Cornwall's death to Albany and Goneril also delivers a letter to Goneril from whom?

4. By what title does Oswald refer to Goneril as in Act I, Scene 3?

5. Regan and Goneril tell Lear that he is what type of a man?

(see the answer key)

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