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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) Cold water baths.
(b) Sleep and rest.
(c) Nothing can cure madness.
(d) Herbs and walking.

2. Who does Kent ask to "turn thy wheel"?
(a) Hope.
(b) Fortune.
(c) Daylight.
(d) The sun.

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

4. Lear refuses to leave the storm and go to safety without whom?
(a) Kent.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Edgar.
(d) The Fool.

5. Lear states that Edgar is the natural man, after his ravings, because of what?
(a) Edgar is unburdened by heartache.
(b) Edgar owes nobody anything.
(c) Edgar is letting his own mind run free.
(d) Edgar is mad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cordelia says she is guiding the French army against the English only because of what?

2. Who carries a torch and finds the King and company in the forest?

3. Oswald and Kent meet in front of what structure?

4. Kent repeatedly calls Oswald by what name?

5. Who calls the hovel haunted?

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