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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. Where do Lear, The Fool, Kent, and Gloucester go when they leave the farmhouse?
(a) Dover.
(b) To see a doctor.
(c) To Cordelia.
(d) France.

2. Gloucester tries to commit suicide by doing what?
(a) Lighting himself on fire.
(b) Stabbing himself.
(c) Hanging himself.
(d) Jumping off a cliff.

3. Regan thinks that Gloucester should suffer what punishment?
(a) The stocks.
(b) Beheading.
(c) Prison.
(d) Hanging.

4. Edgar tells Gloucester that the person who led Gloucester to the edge of the cliff looked like a what?
(a) Traitor.
(b) Boy.
(c) God.
(d) Demon.

5. What is the name Edgar uses in place of his own?
(a) Poor Man.
(b) Poor Thomas.
(c) Poor Tom.
(d) Poor Kent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Regan suspects that Goneril and Edmund are doing what?

2. When Gloucester is brought in and tied up, he asks Regan, Goneril, and Cornwall to not mistreat him because why?

3. Who is Edmund's father?

4. According to Goneril, while King Lear is staying with her, how often does King Lear wrong her?

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

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