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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. What has to happen in order for Edgar to be reunited with his father?
(a) Edgar's innocence has to be proven.
(b) Edgar has to find his father.
(c) Edgar must repent of his actions.
(d) Edgar has to not be mad.

2. Edgar is left alone at the farmhouse and hopes that the King will be able to do what?
(a) Get justice on his daughters.
(b) Escape.
(c) Live a long life.
(d) Get his lands back.

3. To aide in his disguise, what does Edgar do to his hair?
(a) He rubs mud in it.
(b) He shaves it all off.
(c) He cuts it.
(d) He knots it.

4. What did Goneril's gentleman do that causes King Lear to strike him?
(a) Chiding the King.
(b) Chiding the Fool.
(c) Entering a building before the King.
(d) Refusing one of the knight's requests.

5. Lear says that wickedness is only punished in the poor and that wickedness isn't punished in the rich because they are protected by what?
(a) Their servants.
(b) Their wealth.
(c) Their homes.
(d) Their status.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child"

2. The messenger who delivers the news of Cornwall's death to Albany and Goneril also delivers a letter to Goneril from whom?

3. How many of King Lear's daughters are married?

4. Regan suspects that Goneril and Edmund are doing what?

5. Gloucester greets the news of the English taking prisoners with what thoughts?

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