10 questions🇬🇧English
👑 King Lear – A-level
English Literature · A-level — plot, subplot, characters, tragic themes and key quotations from Shakespeare's play
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Questions
In the love test, what is Cordelia's first reply when Lear asks what she can say to draw a richer third of the kingdom?
Nothing, my lord
I cannot heave my heart into my mouth
My love is more than words can wield
I love you as a daughter should
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Which of Lear's daughters is married to the Duke of Albany?
Cordelia
None of his daughters
Regan
Goneril
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After fleeing his father's anger, what disguise does Edgar adopt?
A soldier in France's army
Poor Tom, a mad beggar
A wandering friar
Caius, a plain-speaking servant
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Who opens a soliloquy with 'Thou, Nature, art my goddess'?
Goneril
Edmund
Lear
Edgar
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Who says 'I have no way and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw'?
Edgar
Kent
Gloucester
Lear
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Which character physically plucks out Gloucester's eyes?
The Duke of Albany
The Duke of Cornwall
Oswald
Edmund
30s
Complete Lear's line from the storm scene: 'I am a man / More …'
sinned against than sinning
foolish than the Fool
pitied than to pity
wronged than ever wronging
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In which act does the Fool make his final appearance?
Act 2
Act 3
Act 4
Act 5
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Dying, Edmund says 'Some good I mean to do, / Despite of mine own nature.' What does he attempt?
To revoke his order to kill Lear and Cordelia
To beg Albany to spare Goneril's life
To return his father's earldom to Edgar
To warn Albany of Goneril's plot against him
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In Aristotle's Poetics, tragic catharsis is the purging of which two emotions in the audience?
Joy and sorrow
Guilt and shame
Pity and fear
Grief and anger
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