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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the doctor prescribe to help cure Lear's madness?
(a) Sleep and rest.
(b) Herbs and walking.
(c) Nothing can cure madness.
(d) Cold water baths.

2. What does Oswald say after Kent draws his sword?
(a) Help, ho! My life be spared!
(b) Help, ho! Leave me be!
(c) Help, ho! Murderer, Murderer!
(d) Help, ho! Sword is drawn!

3. Who brings Cordelia the news that the British armies are marching towards them?
(a) An officer.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A messenger.
(d) A gentleman.

4. Cornwall and Regan administer what punishment to Kent?
(a) They put him in the stocks.
(b) They hang him.
(c) They beat him.
(d) They whip him.

5. Instead of calling Edgar mad, Lear gives him what title?
(a) Fool.
(b) Wise man.
(c) Poet.
(d) Philosopher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who protests punishing Kent without the King's consent?

2. Cordelia has what quality that her sisters lack?

3. Kent repeatedly calls Oswald by what name?

4. Lear says the anguish of the storm distracts him from what?

5. Cordelia says that France is not fighting the English with which motivation?

(see the answer key)

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