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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. Lear conducts a mock trial of his daughters; who serves as the judges?
(a) Edgar and Kent.
(b) Edgar, Kent, and The Fool.
(c) Edgar and The Fool.
(d) Kent and The Fool.

2. When King Lear announces that he is retiring, what does he want to do with his lands?
(a) Give them equally to his son-in-laws.
(b) Choose one of his daughters to be Queen.
(c) Reward his youngest daughter with the lands.
(d) Divide them equally amongst his daughters.

3. Kent tells the gentleman of a coming conflict between Albany and Cornwall and asks the gentleman to take the report to where?
(a) London.
(b) France.
(c) Dover.
(d) Camelot.

4. Who says "Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, / Than still contemned and flattered"?
(a) Regan.
(b) Lear.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) Edgar.

5. How many of King Lear's daughters are married?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man who leads the blind Earl of Gloucester into the heath claims what relationship to the Earl?

2. What punishment will King Lear's daughters give the Fool for speaking the truth?

3. What did Oswald's letter from Goneril cause Regan and Cornwall to do?

4. Why did the King of France leave the French encampment and return to France?

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

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