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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is leading a blind Gloucester into the heath?
(a) A mad man.
(b) A poor man.
(c) An old man.
(d) A sad man.

2. Lear says the anguish of the storm distracts him from what?
(a) The hearbreak of making bad choices.
(b) The heartbreak of losing his kingdom.
(c) The heartbreak of his daughters' treachery.
(d) The heartbreak of losing Cordelia.

3. 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 has no reason to be obligated to him.
(d) It doesn't need any man to be a storm.

4. How many daughters does King Lear have?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

5. Who makes Lear sleep while they are in the farmhouse?
(a) Gloucester.
(b) Kent.
(c) Fortune.
(d) The Fool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Regan and Goneril believe is affecting the King's mind?

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

3. Who is the protagonist in the play?

4. King Lear has brought how many servants and knights to stay with Goneril?

5. Who says, "Here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool"?

(see the answer key)

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