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WorksheetsKing Lear
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
How does King Lear plan on spending his remaining years?
relaxing in France
visiting his daughters
writing his memories
making religious pilgrimages
What does King Lear ask his daughters to declare?
Their loyalty to the throne
Their love for him
Their love for each other
Their love for their spouses
Which of the three daughters said to her father, King Lear, ' I love you as a daughter should love a father, no more and no less.'
Cordelia
Regan
Goneril
Olivia
Which of the daughters said to their father, King Lear, 'My love for you is even greater than that of my sister'?
Goneril
Olivia
Regan
Cordelia
How does King Lear react to Cordelia's refusal to flatter him?
He gives her share of the kingdom to her sisters.
He grows sad and asks to be left alone.
He claims that she is adopted and therefore has no place in his inheritance.
He orders her to be executed at dawn.
Whom did King Lear banish for openly disagreeing with him on the matter of banishing his daughter, Cordelia?
Duke of Albany
Earl of France
Earl of Kent
King of France
Who rejected Cordelia's hand in marriage upon learning of her disinheritance?
Earl of Kent
Duke of France
Duke of Burgundy
King of France
Goneril ordered her servants to _____ .
wash all of King Lear's clothes.
honour King Lear and obey him.
refuse King Lear entry to her house.
act rudely toward him.
Who shows up at Goneril's castle disguised as a peasant?
Albany
Kent
Gloucester
Edgar
Which character stays with King Lear and points out truths, which are missed and ignored, using jokes?
The Fool
Kent
Edgar
Gloucester
When King Lear tells Regan that Goneril has wronged him, what does Regan tell him to do?
She tells him to get out of her house.
She tells him that Gloucester is an enemy.
She tells him to go seek Goneril's forgiveness.
She tells him that he can stay with her.
How does Regan die?
She is poisoned by Goneril
She is poisoned by Cordelia
She is stabbed by Goneril
She is stabbed by Edmund
How does King Lear die?
He is poisoned by Goneril.
He is stabbed by Edmund.
He dies naturally of a broken heart after discovering that Cordelia was dead.
He dies soon after reclaiming his title as King because of His old age.
What, do you think, the audience feels for King Lear at the end of the play?
Derision
Consolation
Sympathy
Frustration
