King Lear Act 4

How many scenes are in Act IV of King Lear?

• 4

• 7

• 5

• 6

Complete the quotation: 'As flies to --- boys, as we to th'gods;

They kill us for their sport

(Act 4, scene 1)

What does Gloucester want to do at Dover?

• throw himself from a cliff

• take revenge

• regain his eyesight

• find Edmund

Who says:

'There is a cliff whose high and bending head

Looks fearfully in the confined deep.'

• Gloucester

• Edgar

• Cordelia

• Lear

Gloucster's 'fall' is symbolic of our human condition when considering the expulsion of Adam and Eve from which garden?

• Secret

• Eden

• Walled

• Locked

When Gloucester says this line, it is clear that he is wiser now that he is blind, realising Edgar's innocence' and Edmund's guilt. Complete the quotation:

'I --- when I saw'

What does Gloucester give Poor Tom as a reward for leading him to the cliff edge?

• a pin

• a letter

• money

• a ring

Who leads the blinded Gloucester to Dover?

• Edgar

• Edgar, disguised as Poor Tom

• Edmund

• The fool

Complete the quotation:

'Tis the time's --- when madmen lead the blind.'

Who says that Goneril and Regan are 'tigers not daughters?'

• Lear

• Edmund

• Cordelia

• Albany