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Edgar
Is a mirror character to both Edmund and Lear.
Is a mirror character to Kent and The Fool.
Is a mirror character to Goneril and Regan.
Is a mirror character to both Gloucester and Kent.
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What other character...
The Fool
Macbeth
Jordan Baker
Albany
3
Marxist criticism would say that...
the problems are due to the golden crown.
the problems are due to bastards mucking about.
Kings have no authority.
the problems arise due to an uneven distribution of wealth.
4
Sits in the stocks for speaking "plainly."
Kent
Gloucester
Burgundy
Oswald
5
What does Cordelia mean by "washed eyes"?
She is considering France.
Crying has washed her eyes and is now able to see clearly.
She is considering Burgundy.
She can see Kent's disguise.
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"He'll shape his course in a country new."
His is banished.
Is a metaphor for disguise.
He is saying goodbye forever.
He is preparing his horse to ride.
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Caius
Is Edgar
Edmund
A foe to the king.
Is Kent
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The Duke be here tonight? The better! Best!
Alliterative
Intrusion of time.
Intrusion of time and alliterative.
Anachronism
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Who wrote "Historia Regum Britanniae"?
Ralph Holinshed
Geoffrey Monmouth
Geoffrey Chaucer
Raphael Holinshed
10
Represents...
All of the above.
A world upside down.
A divided kingdom.
Appearance of sleep and death.
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According to Asimov, the title of Duke is...
All of the above.
an anachronism.
a borrowed term from the French "dux."
a title for a leader of a troop of men.
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Kingship is...
an unnatural state and only nature can mend his errors.
a dangerous title and prone to the natural ways of men.
All of the above.
a man made concept therefore no more valuable than weeds.
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Vocabulary - Propinquity
The sound eyes make when they hit the floor.
In the mud.
Close together.
The colour light blue.
14
I love Gandalf.
Ian McKellen
King Lear
All of the above.
Comic Relief
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Gloucester has no eyes but now sees that his son has betrayed him.
Ironic
All of the above.
Ewww...gross! Eyeballs!
Motif driven.
16
Who says it..."If you will come to me, I entreat you to bring but five-an-twenty."
Goneril
Cornwall
Goneril and Oswald
Regan
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The Fool's stature is small because...
All of the above.
Irony
In every joke there is a seed of truth.
Juxtaposition
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Letters
A stage device meant to reveal secrets.
A stage device meant to add confusion.
A stage device meant to reveal love affairs.
A stage device.
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Who says it..."With washed eyes ___________ leaves you."
Goneril
Cordelia
Gloucester
Kent
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Who is an unnatural boy?
Oswald
Gloucester
Edgar
Edmund
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Warm Up - How many plays did Shakespeare write?
37
15
17
26
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Nothing will come of nothing.
The crown.
The eggs.
All of the above.
The darkness.
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"Hold amity" means...
Keep the peace.
Plan for war.
Hold court.
Holy Sun.
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A bastard.
Edmund
Edmund and Cornwall
Cornwall
Edgar
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A sycophant...
Kent
Oswald
Cornwall & Oswald
Regan
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The dragon and his wrath...
What the Fool calls Lear.
What Regan calls Lear.
What Lear calls himself.
What Goneril calls Lear.
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Feminist criticism would say that...
Cordelia should be able to chose her own mate or none at all
Cordelia should be happy to be Queen of France.
Cordelia should chose the richest husband.
Should fight her sisters to the death.
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The storm is a metaphor for...
King Lear's madness.
Trouble in the kingdom and Lear's madness.
Trouble in the kingdom.
The result of too many jokes.
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Motifs
Sprigs of rosemary and swords.
darkness, eggs, eyes, birds, circles and occurences of 3
darkness, eggs and eyes
birds of prey, circles and occurences of 3
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Tougher - How many Sonnets did Shakespeare write?
None
154
28
112
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Kent's insults to Oswald are a device.
Comic relief.
Plot holes.
Suspension of disbelief.
Pathetic Fallacy
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Kent says "See better Lear."
Pathetic Fallacy
Verbal Irony
Simile
Dramatic Irony
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"Winter's not gone yet , if the wild geese fly that way."
King Lear
The Fool
Edgar
Gloucester
34
The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft.
Lear to Cordelia.
Lear to Gloucester.
Lear to Kent.
Lear to himself.
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Thou unnecessary letter...
"Z"
"O"
"P"
"J"
