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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King Lear has brought how many servants and knights to stay with Goneril?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Three hundred.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) Four hundred.

2. Edmund is going to betray Gloucester to whom?
(a) The King.
(b) The knights.
(c) The Duke.
(d) The Earl.

3. Who are the three speakers in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Gloucester, Edgar, and Edmund.
(b) Edmund, Curan, and Edgar.
(c) Edmund Curan, and Gloucester.
(d) Edgar Curan, and Gloucester.

4. Goneril's goal is to have King Lear go and stay with whom, rather than stay at her house?
(a) Her brother's house.
(b) Her sister's house.
(c) His palace.
(d) His summer palace.

5. Where does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?
(a) Albany's castle.
(b) Goneril's castle.
(c) Gloucester's castle.
(d) Lear's castle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gloucester orders Edgar captured and killed because Gloucester thinks Edgar did what to Edmund?

2. Curan holds what position in society?

3. What are the rumors that Curan tells Edmund?

4. After Lear laments his ungrateful daughters, what begins?

5. Edmund is going to betray Gloucester in order to do what?

(see the answer key)

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