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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. Gloucester blames the effects of what for affecting relationships?
(a) The moon.
(b) The stars.
(c) The planets.
(d) The eclipses.

2. Why did the King of France leave the French encampment and return to France?
(a) So he wouldn't have to fight.
(b) Because his life was in danger.
(c) He didn't want to see King Lear.
(d) There was important business to take care of in France.

3. Oswald reports that Albany smiled when he heard what news?
(a) That Gloucester was punished.
(b) That Goneril and Edmund were on their way.
(c) That the King had gone to Dover.
(d) That the French Army had landed.

4. After hearing the news of Cornwall's death, Albany vows to take revenge for what act of Cornwall's?
(a) Not keeping the women out of the plans.
(b) The blinding of Gloucester.
(c) Not keeping Goneril at Cornwall.
(d) The escape of the King.

5. People who see Gloucester's crippled condition are turning against whom?
(a) Regan and Edmund.
(b) Edmund and Goneril.
(c) Regan and Albany.
(d) Albany and Edmund.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, / Than still contemned and flattered"?

2. Regan suspects that Goneril and Edmund are doing what?

3. The paper Edmund has, which he is going to show to Gloucester as proof of his brother's treachery, says that the older generation should do what with their riches?

4. Goneril's goal is to have King Lear go and stay with whom, rather than stay at her house?

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

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