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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the doctor prescribe to help cure Lear's madness?
(a) Herbs and walking.
(b) Sleep and rest.
(c) Cold water baths.
(d) Nothing can cure madness.

2. What is the name of Edmund's legitimate brother?
(a) Eric.
(b) Edward.
(c) Edgar.
(d) Ethan.

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

4. Edgar hides in what location to escape his pursuers?
(a) A hollow of a tree.
(b) An abandoned shack.
(c) In tree branches.
(d) Under a bush.

5. Where does Act 3, Scene 5 take place?
(a) Cornwall's castle.
(b) Cornwall's castle.
(c) Gloucester's castle.
(d) Gloucester's courtyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Edmund fakes feeling what about turning in his father?

2. Gloucester tells Edmund there has been a falling out between which two dukes?

3. King Lear is trying to find his fool who has been missing for how long?

4. What punishment will King Lear give to the Fool for lying?

5. When Lear sees Kent in the stocks, he asks Kent what question?

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