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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. While King Lear is staying with Goneril, she complains that his knights are doing what?
(a) Eating too much food.
(b) Causing problems with the children.
(c) Taking up too much space.
(d) Interfering with her household.

2. Who tells Kent of a plot against the King?
(a) His dreams.
(b) Gloucester.
(c) The stars.
(d) A gentleman.

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

4. When King Lear gets ready to depart Goneril's house, what is his method of travel?
(a) By cart.
(b) By carriage.
(c) On horseback.
(d) By foot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lear sees Kent in the stocks, he asks Kent what question?

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

3. Kent points out that there is a hovel nearby and asks the King to do what?

4. Who delivers King Lear's letter to his other daughter, while the King is at Goneril's?

5. What did Oswald's letter from Goneril cause Regan and Cornwall to do?

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