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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Lear is in the town near the French encampment, he doesn't want to see Cordelia because he feels what?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Shame.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Fear.

2. How does Edmund characterize the belief that people having in the stars and planets ruling their lives?
(a) As preposterous.
(b) As superstitious.
(c) As truth.
(d) As genuine.

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

4. The messenger who delivers the news of Cornwall's death to Albany and Goneril also delivers a letter to Goneril from whom?
(a) Edmund.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) Lear.
(d) Regan.

5. Lear says that the weather is not unkind in its actions of a storm because why?
(a) It has no reason to be obligated to him.
(b) It doesn't need any man to be a storm.
(c) It simply acts as nature will.
(d) It has reason to be stormy.

Short Answer Questions

1. People who see Gloucester's crippled condition are turning against whom?

2. Where do Lear, The Fool, Kent, and Gloucester go when they leave the farmhouse?

3. According to Goneril, while King Lear is staying with her, how often does King Lear wrong her?

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

5. Gloucester tries to commit suicide by doing what?

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