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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. What is Edmund going to do in order to assure Gloucester that his brother's intent isn't to hurt Gloucester?
(a) Send someone to spy on Edgar.
(b) Talk with Edgar and report to Gloucester.
(c) Talk with Edgar so that Gloucester can hear them.
(d) Write a letter asking Edgar what his intent is.

2. In the first scene, an attendant is carrying a small crown meant for whom?
(a) Regan.
(b) Goneril.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) The Queen.

3. Who delivers King Lear's letter to his other daughter, while the King is at Goneril's?
(a) A knight.
(b) The Fool.
(c) Kent.
(d) Oswald.

4. Who carries a torch and finds the King and company in the forest?
(a) Gloucester.
(b) Goneril.
(c) Regan.
(d) Cornwall.

5. Who calls the hovel haunted?
(a) Edgar.
(b) Kent.
(c) The Fool.
(d) The King.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name Edgar uses in place of his own?

2. While Kent warns the gentleman of the coming conflict between Albany and Cornwall, what are the spies of France doing?

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

4. When King Lear announces that he is retiring, what does he want to do with his lands?

5. Kent repeatedly calls Oswald by what name?

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