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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. When Kent says: "but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master," what quality is he referring to?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Authority.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Royalty.

2. Lear says that the weather is not unkind in its actions of a storm because why?
(a) It has no reason to be obligated to him.
(b) It doesn't need any man to be a storm.
(c) It has reason to be stormy.
(d) It simply acts as nature will.

3. Edmund cuts his arm with what weapon after he and Edgar pretend to fight?
(a) A knife.
(b) A sword.
(c) An arrow.
(d) A dagger.

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

5. Who does Lear say should feel obligation to him?
(a) His son-in-laws.
(b) His servants.
(c) His daughters.
(d) His kingdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the King of France leaves the French encampment, who does he leave in charge?

2. Cordelia says that France is not fighting the English with which motivation?

3. What emotion does Edgar feel when he sees that his father is blind?

4. Instead of calling Edgar mad, Lear gives him what title?

5. Oswald is what relation to Goneril?

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