King Lear banishes what people from his kingdom? | Kent |
Lear is the king of which country | Britain |
Which suitor of cordelia refuses to marry her after she is disinherited? | Burgundy |
Why does cordilia refuse to flatter lear as her sisters have done | They were insincere and she doesn’t want to stoop to their level of hypocrisy |
Who parallels Lear in the subplot storyline | Gloucester |
How does Edmund first deceive Gloucester into beleiving that edgar is plotting against him? | He pretends to write a letter which he had fabricated, incriminating edgar |
Which character could NOT be considered evil? | Albany |
Which character spoke these lines? “I love your Majesty/According to my bond, no more nor less” | Cordelia |
Which act solidifies Lear’s trust for his new servant, Caius (kent Disguised) | Caius trips Oswald after lear has struck him because he is being impolite |
Why is Kent put in the stocks at gloucester’s castle | Insults and strikes oswald |
How many servants/ knights do regan and Goneril finally agree upon as the number they will allow Lear to keep in his train if he wishes to live with either of them? | 0 |
After Edmund hears about Cornwall’s visit he then schemes to get rid of Edgar. What does Edmund tell Edgar? | Cornwall is angry with him for being on Albanys side or their disagreement |
Edmund vows what to Gloucester | To pursue edgar |
How does Edgar escape being caught by kent | By dressing up like a beggar |
How many of lears men did Regan accept | 25 |
Does gloucesters begging convince Regan and Goneril to let King lear back into the safety of their household | No |
What word best describes the characters of Regan and Goneril | Stubborn |
How is Kent punished for striking Goneril’s servant, Oswald? | Thrown into stocks |
What does Kent learn from on of lears knights | Lear is close by |
What does kent order the Gentleman to give to Cordelia | A ring |
What does Gloucester ask of Edmund | to distract cornwall |
Edmund plan to get Gloucester’s title, land, and other possessions by? | betray him |
Edgar the beggar says before he was poor he was? | wealthy courtier who spent days drinking and with women |
Regan tells Gloucester that it was Edmund who | betrayed him |
Which character was conceived out of wedlock and is considered a bastard | Edmund |
When they hear Lear is coming to visit them, where do regan and cornwall go? | Gloucester’s castle |
when lear tells reegan that Goneril has wronged him, what does Regan advise him to do? | Go to goneril and ask her for forgiveness |
After he curses both Goneril and Regan, what does lear do? | Storms out of the castle with the fool |
When they’re caught in the storm, what does the fool suggest that Lear do? | To beg his daughter for shelter |
What did regan, Goneril, and Cornwall do when gloucester asked to go look for lear | Took possession of his castle |
What does Edgar claim is happening to him> | he is being possessed by devils |
Why does lear take off his clothes? | to show sympathy toward edgar |
How does edmund react to the revelation of his fathers actions? | pretends to be horrified but is secretly Glad |
What does Gloucester overhear when gathering supplies? | Plot against Lears life. |
What does edgar realize after after seeing lears suffering | his own sufferings are insignificant |
what punishment do cornwall and regan inflict on Gloucester | They blind him |
Whom does Edgar encounter on the heath | Gloucester |
Where does GLoucester ask to be taken | Highest cliff in dover |
Whom does Goneril discover to be no longer on her side | Albany |
How does Albany regard cornwalls death | thinks it is a punishment |
Why is goneri upset about cornwalls death | Regan can marry edmund |
Who is in charge of the french army | cordelia |
why does lear not want to see cordilia | hes ashamed of how he treated her |
what does the doctor say that Lear needs | sleep |
why does regan think that Edmund should be with her rather than goneril? | because her husband is dead and goneril is alive |
What does regan promise oswald a reward for? | Killing gloucester |
What does edgar pretend to allow gloucester to do? | Jump off a cliff |
Who does Edgar say was with Gloucester at the top of the cliff | a devil |
who encounters edgar and gloucester in a maddened state | King Lear |
what happens when oswald tried to kill Gloucester | Edgar kills oswald |
what does edgar take from oswald as he dies | the letters |
what does reegan ask edmund not to do? | sleep with Goneril |
Why does Albany have mixed feelings about the fight the invaders | he is sympathetic towards her |
What does edgar give albany | the letters from Goneril to edmund |
Whom has edmund sworn his love to | Regan and GOneril |
before the battle between the French and English armies, to whose camp is lear brought | Cordilias |
What does edmund vow to do do to Lear and Cordelia | Punish them severely |
What happens to Lear and Cordelia during the battle | the are captured |
how does regan die | poisoned by goneril |
who fights a duel with edmund | edgar |
what does Edmund reveal as he lies dying | he ordered cordelia to be killed |
what happened to cordelia | she is hanged in prison |
What happens to lear at the end of the play | he dies |
King Lear Test
July 13, 2019