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

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

3. Goneril and Cornwall order Gloucester to do what if Lear returns to the castle?
(a) Not allow him in.
(b) Strip him of anything valuable.
(c) Allow him into the stables only.
(d) Make sure he doesn't have any servants with him.

4. When Edmund tells his brother that his father is horribly angry with him, what does Edmund advise his brother to do?
(a) Write a letter to Gloucester to explain things.
(b) Go and talk to Gloucester to cool him off.
(c) Leave England until Gloucester cools off.
(d) Stay away from Gloucester until he cools off.

5. Who says, "Here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool"?
(a) The King.
(b) Kent.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) The Fool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Goneril's gentleman do that causes King Lear to strike him?

2. While King Lear is staying with Goneril, how does she command her servants to treat the King and his people?

3. Goneril's goal is to have King Lear go and stay with whom, rather than stay at her house?

4. When Oswald leaves Goneril and Albany and returns to Regan at Cornwall, what does he carry from Goneril to Edmund?

5. Where does Act 3, Scene 3 take place?

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