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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. What are the rumors that Curan tells Edmund?
(a) Rumors of war between Lear and the Duke of Albany.
(b) Rumors of war between the Duke of Cornwall and the Duke of Albany.
(c) Rumors of war between Fance and England.
(d) Rumors of war between Lear and Burgundy.

2. Where does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?
(a) Albany's castle.
(b) Goneril's castle.
(c) Lear's castle.
(d) Gloucester's castle.

3. Who says: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child"
(a) The Duke of Burgundy.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Goneril.
(d) The Fool.

4. What punishment will King Lear give to the Fool for lying?
(a) A whipping.
(b) Dismissal as Fool.
(c) A caning.
(d) Prison.

5. The paper Edmund has, which he is going to show to Gloucester as proof of his brother's treachery, says that the older generation should do what with their riches?
(a) Use them to benefit their children.
(b) Give them to the poor.
(c) Give them to the younger men.
(d) Hold onto them.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Kent says: "but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master," what quality is he referring to?

2. While King Lear is staying with Goneril, she complains that his knights are doing what?

3. In the first scene, an attendant is carrying a small crown meant for whom?

4. What does Edmund have that is supposedly from his brother?

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

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