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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the King of France leaves the French encampment, who does he leave in charge?
(a) The Marshal of France.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Albany.
(d) The Prince of France.

2. Regan promises a promotion to Oswald if he finds and kills who?
(a) Edmund.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) Lear.
(d) Goneril.

3. Who kills Oswald?
(a) Regan.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) Edgar.
(d) Edmund.

4. Lear says that the weather is not unkind in its actions of a storm because why?
(a) It simply acts as nature will.
(b) It has reason to be stormy.
(c) It has no reason to be obligated to him.
(d) It doesn't need any man to be a storm.

5. While Lear is in the town near the French encampment, he doesn't want to see Cordelia because he feels what?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Fear.
(c) Shame.
(d) Guilt.

Short Answer Questions

1. To aide in his disguise, what does Edgar do for clothing?

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

3. Edgar stops in the middle of what area when he tells Gloucester that they are on a cliff?

4. Which character does the line "when old fools are babes again" refer to?

5. A servant draws his sword on Cornwall because of what action?

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