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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Kent says: "but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master," what quality is he referring to?
(a) Authority.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Royalty.

4. How many of King Lear's daughters are married?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

5. If Edmund cannot get his brother disinherited, how much of his father's inheritance will Edmund inherit?
(a) None.
(b) One-third.
(c) Half.
(d) One-fourth.

Short Answer Questions

1. King Lear has brought how many servants and knights to stay with Goneril?

2. Goneril and Regan believe that the King's banishment of the man who defended Cordelia against being disinherited was what?

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

4. How many suitors does Cordelia have when the King tells them that she will have no dowry?

5. In the first scene, an attendant is carrying a small crown meant for whom?

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