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King Lear

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How does King Lear plan on spending his remaining years?

a)

relaxing in France

b)

visiting his daughters

c)

writing his memories

d)

making religious pilgrimages

2.

What does King Lear ask his daughters to declare?

a)

Their loyalty to the throne

b)

Their love for him

c)

Their love for each other

d)

Their love for their spouses

3.

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.'

a)

Cordelia

b)

Regan

c)

Goneril

d)

Olivia

4.

Which of the daughters said to their father, King Lear, 'My love for you is even greater than that of my sister'?

a)

Goneril

b)

Olivia

c)

Regan

d)

Cordelia

5.

How does King Lear react to Cordelia's refusal to flatter him?

a)

He gives her share of the kingdom to her sisters.

b)

He grows sad and asks to be left alone.

c)

He claims that she is adopted and therefore has no place in his inheritance.

d)

He orders her to be executed at dawn.

6.

Whom did King Lear banish for openly disagreeing with him on the matter of banishing his daughter, Cordelia?

a)

Duke of Albany

b)

Earl of France

c)

Earl of Kent

d)

King of France

7.

Who rejected Cordelia's hand in marriage upon learning of her disinheritance?

a)

Earl of Kent

b)

Duke of France

c)

Duke of Burgundy

d)

King of France

8.

Goneril ordered her servants to _____ .

a)

wash all of King Lear's clothes.

b)

honour King Lear and obey him.

c)

refuse King Lear entry to her house.

d)

act rudely toward him.

9.

Who shows up at Goneril's castle disguised as a peasant?

a)

Albany

b)

Kent

c)

Gloucester

d)

Edgar

10.

Which character stays with King Lear and points out truths, which are missed and ignored, using jokes?

a)

The Fool

b)

Kent

c)

Edgar

d)

Gloucester

11.

When King Lear tells Regan that Goneril has wronged him, what does Regan tell him to do?

a)

She tells him to get out of her house.

b)

She tells him that Gloucester is an enemy.

c)

She tells him to go seek Goneril's forgiveness.

d)

She tells him that he can stay with her.

12.

How does Regan die?

a)

She is poisoned by Goneril

b)

She is poisoned by Cordelia

c)

She is stabbed by Goneril

d)

She is stabbed by Edmund

13.

How does King Lear die?

a)

He is poisoned by Goneril.

b)

He is stabbed by Edmund.

c)

He dies naturally of a broken heart after discovering that Cordelia was dead.

d)

He dies soon after reclaiming his title as King because of His old age.

14.

What, do you think, the audience feels for King Lear at the end of the play?

a)

Derision

b)

Consolation

c)

Sympathy

d)

Frustration