WorksheetsKing Lear 46 Quote Questions
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 32mins
“she grew round-womb’d, and had indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed”
Kent
Gloucester
Lear
Albany
Cordelia:
“Unhappy that I am, I heave My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty According as my bond, no more nor less.”
“Unhappy I am, I cannot wield My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty According to my bond, more nor less.”
“Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty According to my bond, no more nor less.”
“Unhappy here I am, I heave My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty According to my oath, no more nor less.”
“If, on the tenth day following,Thy banish’d trunk be found in our dominions,The moment is thy death.”
Lear
Albany
Cornwall
Edmund
Hadst not been born than not t’ have pleas’d me better.”
Which is Edmund's quote?
“Fine word, “legitimate”!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed And my invention thrive, Edmund the base shall top th’ legitimate.”
“Fine word, “legitimate”!
Well, if this letter speed And my invention thrive, Edmund the base shall top th’ legitimate.”
“Fine word, “legitimate”!
Well, legitimate, if this letter speed And my invention thrive, Edmund the base shall top th’ legitimate.”
“O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter. Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! Worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him; I’ll apprehend him. Abominable villain! Where is he?”
Lear
Regan
Gloucester
Goneril
Goneril:
“ I’ll not endure it. His knights are growing riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle.
“ I’ll not endure it. His knights grow ever more riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle.
“ I’ll not endure it. His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle."
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,”
Lear cursing Goneril:
“And from her derogate body never spring
A babe to love her!”
“And from her derogate body never spring
A babe to delight her!”
“And from her derogate body never spring
A babe to honor her!”
“And from her derogate body never spring
A babe to be hers!”
Edmund:
“I hear my father coming.
Pardon me:In cunning
I must wield my sword upon you.”
“I hear my father coming.
Pardon me:In cunning
I must swing my sword upon you.”
“I hear my father coming.
Pardon me:In cunning
I must draw my sword upon you.”
“I hear my father coming.
Pardon me:In cunning
I must slice my sword upon you.”
“Draw, you rascal! You come with letters against the King, and take Vanity the puppet’s part against the royalty of her father. ”
Albany
Cornwall
Kent
Oswald
Edgar becoming 'Poor Tom' “ My face I’ll _____ with filth,
________ my loins, elf all my hairs in knots,
And with presented _______ outface
The winds and persecutions of the sky.”
smear, Cover, naked
slather, Blanket, nakedness
daub, Unclothed, nude
Cordelia:
'I love you as a daughter should love a father, no more and no less'.
'I love thee as a daughter should love a father, no more and no less'.
'I love you father as a daughter should, no more and no less'.
Goneril to Lear: 'my love for you is ________'?
eternal
infinite
endless
boundless
Cordelia to Lear: “You have ____ me, ____ me, ____ me./ I return those duties as are right fit:/ Obey you, love you, and most _____ you.”
loved, begot, bred, respect
begot, bred, loved, honor
bred, loved, begot,revere
Who said it? -
"Out vile jelly!"
Gloucester
Albany
Cornwall
Edmund
Who said it? -
"As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; They kill us for their sport."
Gloucester
Lear
Edgar
Kent
"Blow, winds, and _____ your cheeks! ____, ____!"
puff, Fury, rage
crack, Rage, blow
redden, Blow, rage
fill, Rage, fury
Edgar:
"And worse I may be yet. The worst is not so long as we can say "This is hell."
"And worse I may be yet. The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the end."
"And worse I may be yet. The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst."
Who said it? -
"The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."
Edgar
Edmund
Albany
Kent
Finish the Fool's song: "Fathers that wear rags..."
"Do make their children blind"
"Do new clothes need find"
"Do have themselves a fine mind"
"Do find themselves in a bind"
Lear:
"Nothing comes to nothing"?
"Nothing will come of nothing"?
"Nothing, comes of nothing"?
Who says, "My life I never held but as a pawn/ To wage against thy enemies, nor fear to lose it/ Thy safety being the motive."
Kent
Gloucester
Edmund
Edgar
"Let me, if not by ____, have ____ by wit"?
law, wealth
birth, lands
lineage, inheritance
Lear: "____, thou marble-hearted fiend/ More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child/ Than the sea-monster!"
Ingratitude
Jealousy
Selfishness
Thanklessness
Edmund:
Look, sir, I bleed.
Look, I bleed sir.
Look, sir, blood.
Who does Kent say these words to in Act 2 Scene 2?
'Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand; you neat
slave, strike.'
(a)
Who says: "your purposed low correction
Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches
For pilferings and most common trespasses
Are punish'd with: the king must take it ill," in Act 2 Scene 2
Gloucester
Edmund
Edgar
Kent
What are the last four words of Edgar's soliloquy in Act 2 Scene 3 when he takes on the guise of Poor Tom?
Edgar I nothing am
Edgar, I am nothing
Edgar, nothing I am
Lear:
"I am man who 's sinned against more than sinning"?
"I am a man more sinned against than sinned"?
"I am a man more sinned against than sinning"?
Gloucester:
"I have no way, therefore want no eyes;
I ___ when I saw"
stumbled
misjudged Edgar
made mistakes
trusted Edmund
Gloucester:
"As ___ to wanton boys, are we to the gods.
They kill us for their ___"
frogs...amusement
toads...skins
flies...sport
girls...whims
Identify the speaker:
"O Goneril!
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face"
Regan
Cornwall
Albany
Lear
Cordelia:
"No blown __ doth our arms incite,
But love, dear love, and our father's ___.
expansion...respect
ambition...right
arrogance...throne
Identify the speaker.
They flattered me like a god and told me I had white hairs in my beard ere the black ones were there. To say "ay" and "no" to everything that I say "ay" and "no" to was no good divinity.
Lear
Gloucester
Poor Tom
Albany
Lear: "When we are born, we ___ that we are come
To this great stage of ___."
exult...lovers
cry...fools
rejoice...actors
What does the Fool mean when he says, "Fathers that wear rags/ Do make their children blind,/ But fathers that bear bags/ Shall see their children kind?
Lear should stop feeling sorry for himself.
Lear was foolish to give away his kingdom.
Lear should buy his daughters presents so that they will be kind to him.
Identify the speaker of the following line:
I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the enmity o' the air,
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,
Necessity's a sharp pinch!
Edgar
Lear
Kent
Lear:
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I'll weep. O Fool, I shall go ___!
to France
mad
forth
Goneril and Regan:
"Hear me, my lord;/ What need you ______________,/ To follow in a house where twice so many/ Have a command to tend you?"
"What need you one?"
ten an twenty, five, or ten
twenty an five, five, or ten
five an twenty, ten, or five
Identify the speaker:
"You think I'll weep/ No, I'll not weep:/ I have full cause of weeping; but this heart/ Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,/ Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!"
Goneril
Kent
Regan
King Lear
Identify the speaker:
"If you shall see Cordelia,--/ As fear not but you shall-- show her this ring;/ And she will tell you who your fellow is/ That yet you do not know."
Kent
Fool
King Lear
Gloucester
Identify the speaker:
"Good nuncle, in, and ask they daughters' blessing: here' a night pities neither wise man nor fool."
Kent
King Lear
Fool
Gentleman
Who said it? -
"Out vile jelly!"
Gloucester
Albany
Cornwall
Lear
