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WorksheetsKing Lear Acts 2-3
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Where is King Lear at the beginning of Act 3
a)
Gloucester's castle
b)
Cordelia's castle
c)
Albany's castle
d)
Out in the storm
2.
Who stayed with Lear when he was exiled from Gloucester's home?
a)
Kent
b)
Fool
c)
Cordelia
d)
Edgar
3.
What are the rumors regarding Albany and Cornwall?
a)
It is rumored that there is division between Cornwall and Albany, leading to civil strife in the kingdom.
b)
It is rumored that Cornwall and Albany will join forces to conquer England.
c)
It is rumored that Albany will join with Cornwall and they will behead their wifes to become more powerful than ever.
d)
It is rumored that Albany and Cornwall disagree with their wifes and will try and aid Lear in his return to power.
4.
Who are the spies sent to England by the King of France?
a)
Cornwall and Albany's own officers of the Royal Court.
b)
The military officers of the Royal Court want to overthrow both Dukes and consolidate their power.
c)
The servants in the households of Albany and Cornwall have been serving as spies.
d)
Goneril and Regan are trying to overthrow their husbands.
5.
What news do France’s spies bring regarding King Lear?
a)
That King Lear has had to bear the abuses of his daughters Goneril and Regan.
b)
That Lear has lost most of his knights and will be easy to overthrow.
c)
That Lear has given his daughters his kingdom and they are planning to enter war with France.
d)
That King Lear is planning on retaking his castle from his daughters and then assassinating them.
6.
Where does Kent think Cordelia will be staying?
a)
Kent thinks that Cordelia is waiting in England.
b)
Kent thinks that Cordelia is waiting at Goneril's castle.
c)
kent thinks that Cordelia is waiting in Gloucestershire.
d)
Kent thinks Cordelia is waiting in Dover.
7.
What does Kent tell the Gentleman to show Cordelia as proof of Kent’s identity?
a)
A letter from Kent with the Royal Seal stamped into the document.
b)
A poem from Kent that cryptically explains his plan for meeting with Cordelia and her army.
c)
A locket that Lear gave Kent in honor of serving him so that Cordelia would know that it was him.
d)
Kent instructs the Gentleman to give Cordelia a ring as proof of Kent’s identity.
8.
Before the Gentleman goes to Dover, what does he do?
a)
The gentleman helps by bringing the Fool back to the safety of the castle.
b)
The gentleman helps Kent to find King Lear in the storm.
c)
The gentleman helps Kent to find a hovel to protect Lear from the elements.
d)
The gentleman helps the fool to Carry Kent to a safer place.
9.
What does the French Army intend to do in England?
a)
Set up relations between England and France as trading partners.
b)
They intend to invade England while it is fragmented.
c)
Avenge Cordelia by capturing Lear and taking him back to France.
d)
Avenge Cordelia by capturing Lear and taking him back to France.
10.
What is Cordelia’s purpose for her temporary stay on the coast in England?
a)
She waits with the French Army to invade England and to save her father from her sisters.
b)
Cordelia waits, along with the French Army, to get revenger by killing her sisters.
c)
Cordelia plots the murder of Lear for being so neglectful and abusive of her.
d)
Cordelia plots to overthrow her sisters and make England a part of France.
11.
What does Kent learn from the Gentleman that he meets on the heath (wild forest.
a)
That Lear is close by.
b)
That Lear has gone insane.
c)
That Lear has given in to his daughters.
d)
That Lear is assembling an army.
12.
What does Gloucester ask of Edmund?
a)
To go and find King Lear and return him.
b)
To go find his brother and return to help him overthrow Goneril and Regan.
c)
Tell Cornwall that he is ill so that he can escape and try to help Lear.
d)
Tell Cornwall that his son Edgar is working for the tretcherous French.
13.
Lear tears his clothes with:
a)
sympathy
b)
empathy
c)
respect
d)
insanity
14.
Regan tells Gloucester that it was Edmund who:
a)
loved him
b)
helped him
c)
betrayed him
d)
saved him
15.
What did Regan, Goneril, and Cornwall do when Gloucester asked to go look for Lear?
a)
Granted his wishes and gave him a horse to look for Lear.
b)
Argued with him initially but ultimately joined in the search.
c)
Took over his castle and ordered him not to mention Lear again.
d)
Refused to listen and locked him in the castle's dungeon.
16.
Whom does Edmund decide to tell about Gloucester's plans?
a)
Cornwell
b)
Oswald
c)
Cordelia
d)
Albany
17.
Which of the following characters does not join King Lear out in the storm?
a)
Fool
b)
Kent
c)
Edgar
d)
Edmund
18.
Which line reflects the idea that in this play the punishment often exceeds the crime?
a)
"Then let fall your horrible pleasure."
b)
"That hast within thee undivulged crimes unwhipped of justice."
c)
"I am a man more sinned against than sinning."
d)
The art of our necessities is strange, and can make vile things precious."
19.
How does Gloucester feel about his son Edmund?
a)
trusts him
b)
questions his motives
c)
wants him to usurp power
d)
encourages him to support his brother
20.
What attribute of the disguised Edgar does Lear mimic?
a)
being covered in dirt
b)
calling himself a foul fiend
c)
taking off his clothes
d)
berating his daughters for his situation
21.
Which of the following is not an example of irony?
a)
Gloucester tells Kent that Kent was a good man.
b)
Edgar hears Gloucester say how much he loves his son Edgar.
c)
Edgar refers to himself as the devil when he is actually kind-hearted.
d)
Lear becomes more mad while talking to a madman.
22.
Due to Gloucester's desire to help Lear, what do Goneril and Regan do to him?
a)
She banishes him.
b)
She kills him.
c)
She plucks his eyes out.
d)
She puts him in the stocks.
23.
Which of the following shows Regan's malicious side?
a)
Supporting her sister.
b)
Helping her husband after he was injured.
c)
Killing a servant.
d)
Allowing her father to live with her.
24.
Which of the following words best describes the end of this act?
a)
harmonious
b)
brutal
c)
deceptive
d)
justified
25.
The Fool's final line "And I'll go to bed at noon" could be an example of what term?
a)
flashback
b)
motif
c)
hyperbole
d)
foreshadowing
26.
What does Glouceter attempt to do in scene three of act three?
a)
He have Edgar murdered by Edmund
b)
Have Edgar rescue Gloucester from Regan and Cornwall.
c)
Have Regan and Cornwall plot against Edmund.
d)
Ask the Regan and Cornwall to leave his castle
27.
What is Edmund's plan?
a)
To kill Gloucester.
b)
To tell Cornwall of the plan to revenge Lear.
c)
To marry Cordelia and become king.
d)
To kill Edgar and make it look like an accident.
28.
In scene four of Act three, Lear finds shelter from the storm. Why does he not want to go into the shelter?
a)
He sees " Bedlam Tom" and wants to talk to him.
b)
The shelter is not nice enough for a king.
c)
He sees the ghost of his wife in the shelter.
d)
He is afraid that a natural monster by inside (an animal)
29.
How does Edmund receive Cornwall's approval?
a)
By telling Cornwall about "Bedlam Tom"
b)
By killing Edgar.
c)
He compliments him.
d)
By betraying his father.
30.
Cornwall gives Goneril a letter. What is the letter about?
a)
It warns Albany about the invasion led by the King of France.
b)
It is a letter about where the King is hiding.
c)
It is a letter about how trecherous Edmund is.
d)
It warns Goneril that Cornwall will betray her.
31.
When Goneril tries to strip Lear of his entourage of knights and servants, he says:
LEARO, reason not the need! Our basest beggarsAre in the poorest thing superfluous.Allow not nature more than nature needs,Man's life's as cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady;If only to go warm were gorgeous,Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need— (2.4.304-311)
What does he really mean here?
LEARO, reason not the need! Our basest beggarsAre in the poorest thing superfluous.Allow not nature more than nature needs,Man's life's as cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady;If only to go warm were gorgeous,Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need— (2.4.304-311)
What does he really mean here?
a)
That letting his knights and servants go will expose him to enemies and other threats.
b)
That letting his knights and servants go will make him like a beast because they represent his station in life.
c)
That letting his knights and servants go might lead them to a life of crime which will come full circle to bite her.
d)
That letting his servants go is unfair as they have dedicated their lives to their family.
32.
In the following passage, what is King Lear trying to tell his daughter Goneril?
LEARWe'll no more meet, no more see one another.But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter,Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a boil,A plague-sore, an embossèd carbuncle,In my corrupted blood. (2.4.253-258)
LEARWe'll no more meet, no more see one another.But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter,Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a boil,A plague-sore, an embossèd carbuncle,In my corrupted blood. (2.4.253-258)
a)
He thinks that she is bossy and should not be allowed to run the kingdom.
b)
She is like a festering disease that occupies his daughter who shares his blood.
c)
She is like a festering disease that is infecting him and making him just like her.
d)
He believes that Goneril is the source of the plague that has killed so many in England.
33.
What is King Lear feeling for the Fool in this passage?
LEARMy wits begin to turn.— Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold?I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel.— Poor Fool and knave, I have one part in my heartThat's sorry yet for thee. (3.2.73-80)
LEARMy wits begin to turn.— Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold?I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel.— Poor Fool and knave, I have one part in my heartThat's sorry yet for thee. (3.2.73-80)
a)
anger
b)
pity
c)
shame
d)
doubt
34.
Lear and his Fool take shelter in a cave. As the fool goes into the cave, Lear remains outdoors to reflect and says:
LEARPoor naked wretches, whereso’er you are,That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,(35)Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend youFrom seasons such as these? O, I have ta’enToo little care of this! Take physic, pomp,Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,(40)And show the heavens more just.
What does Lear say he has learned from this experience?
LEARPoor naked wretches, whereso’er you are,That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,(35)Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend youFrom seasons such as these? O, I have ta’enToo little care of this! Take physic, pomp,Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,(40)And show the heavens more just.
What does Lear say he has learned from this experience?
a)
He understands that he made a mistake giving his daughters power.
b)
He understands what the common poor people of the earth must endure while he lives in luxury.
c)
He understands that good quality homes are important to keep weather from making you uncomfortable and sick.
d)
He understands that while he is suffering in the cold, his daughters are living well off of his hard work.
35.
What are three details from this passage?
KENT
[…] There is division,
Although as yet the face of it be covered
With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall,
Who have—as who have not, that their great stars
Throned and set high?
[…]
But true it is, from France there comes a power
Into this scattered kingdom, who already,
Wise in our negligence, have secret feet
In some of our best ports and are at point
To show their open banner. (3.1.23-27; 34-38)
KENT
[…] There is division,
Although as yet the face of it be covered
With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall,
Who have—as who have not, that their great stars
Throned and set high?
[…]
But true it is, from France there comes a power
Into this scattered kingdom, who already,
Wise in our negligence, have secret feet
In some of our best ports and are at point
To show their open banner. (3.1.23-27; 34-38)
a)
Albany and Cornwall are at odds, the kingdom is scattered. France is on the ground and ready to invade.
b)
Albany and Cornwall have joined forces, France is trying to land in England, They will unite the country and repel them.
c)
Albany and Cornwall are at odds, the country is unified, France will fall in battle.
d)
Albany and Cornwall are at odds, the kingdom is scattered. France is on the ground and ready to invade.
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