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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who kills Oswald?
(a) Gloucester.
(b) Edgar.
(c) Regan.
(d) Edmund.

2. Where do Lear, The Fool, Kent, and Gloucester go when they leave the farmhouse?
(a) France.
(b) Dover.
(c) To Cordelia.
(d) To see a doctor.

3. When Oswald leaves Goneril and Albany and returns to Regan at Cornwall, what does he carry from Goneril to Edmund?
(a) A letter.
(b) A message.
(c) A flower.
(d) A sword.

4. Cordelia says she is guiding the French army against the English only because of what?
(a) Her desire for land.
(b) Her annoyance at her sisters.
(c) Her love for her father.
(d) Her desire to oust her sisters.

5. King Lear has brought how many servants and knights to stay with Goneril?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) Four hundred.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) One hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edgar lead the blind Gloucester from the heath to the cliffs?

2. Kent repeatedly calls Oswald by what name?

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

4. Edgar is left alone at the farmhouse and hopes that the King will be able to do what?

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

(see the answer key)

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