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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. Regan suspects that Goneril and Edmund are doing what?
(a) Plotting against her.
(b) Plotting against Albany.
(c) Going to kill Albany and get married.
(d) Having an affair.

2. How much love does Cordelia say she will give her husband?
(a) None of her love.
(b) All her love.
(c) Some of her love.
(d) Half her love.

3. Who protests punishing Kent without the King's consent?
(a) Goneril.
(b) Oswald.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) Edmund.

4. Who says: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child"
(a) King Lear.
(b) Goneril.
(c) The Duke of Burgundy.
(d) The Fool.

5. What is the name Edgar uses in place of his own?
(a) Poor Man.
(b) Poor Thomas.
(c) Poor Kent.
(d) Poor Tom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kent wonders how such different daughters can come from the same what?

2. Curan holds what position in society?

3. Kent comes to King Lear in disguise and offers his services in what position?

4. Gloucester tells Edmund to say what if someone asks about Gloucester?

5. Kent tells the gentleman of a coming conflict between Albany and Cornwall and asks the gentleman to take the report to where?

(see the answer key)

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