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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Act 1, Scene 5 take place?
(a) In the court before the Duke of Albany's palace.
(b) In the hall of the Duke of Albany's palace.
(c) In the stable of the Duke of Albany's palace.
(d) In the upstairs of the Duke of Albany's palace.

3. When Kent says: "but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master," what quality is he referring to?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Authority.

4. What sound precedes the King's entrance into a scene?
(a) A herald's announcement.
(b) Horns.
(c) Hoofbeats.
(d) Footfalls.

5. Gloucester orders Edgar captured and killed because Gloucester thinks Edgar did what to Edmund?
(a) Gloucester thinks Edgar killed Edmund.
(b) Gloucester thinks Edgar stabbed Edmund.
(c) Gloucester thinks Edgar betrayed Edmund.
(d) Gloucester thinks Edgar hurt Edmund.

Short Answer Questions

1. When King Lear gets ready to depart Goneril's house, what is his method of travel?

2. If Edmund cannot get his brother disinherited, how much of his father's inheritance will Edmund inherit?

3. Oswald is what relation to Goneril?

4. Edmund tells his brother that he fears someone has turned Gloucester against him and then tells his brother to do what?

5. Goneril and Regan believe that the King's banishment of the man who defended Cordelia against being disinherited was what?

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