King Lear Quiz

True or False After Lear has discovered Cordelia dead,he kills the Captain who has killed her. 

In his plays, Shakespeare uses a shift from blank verse to prose to

"...men/Are as the time is; to be tender-minded/Does not become a sword." Edmond is saying

What is Lear's hamartia?

Both Gonerill and Regan have fallen for___

Despite not having a dowry, Cordelia is accepted in marriage by

What is a hovel?

In the storm scene, Shakespeare uses pathetic fallacy to show

Who betrays Gloucester to Cornwall and describes how Gloucester is helping Lear?

When Gloucester asks Poor Tom to take him to a cliff in Dover, what is Gloucester's plan?

"You see how full of changes his age is." Gonerill means that

To what English port town does Gloucester want Lear to be brought?

When is William Shakespeare's birthday?

When the sisters strip Lear of his retinue, how is Shakespeare using this as a symbol?

Who is Lear's daughter, married to Albany?

Blank verse is

True or False- What happens in #14 is an enormous insult to Lear.

In the storm scene, Shakespeare reveals a new side of Lear. This is shown when

To whom does Lear say "Nothing will come of nothing," because she refuses to profess her love?

"Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot." Cornwall says this line to

True or False: Shakespeare had the best house in Stratford.

In the aside, "If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine," Shakespeare is showing us

True or False: Shakespeare spent most of his time in Stratford.

"Man's life is cheap as beast's." Shakespeare uses this line to show that

______is the true son of Gloucester's, and is unwittingly plotted against by his brother.

 Shakespeare uses onomatopoeiac language in the storm scene

When Gloucester says that Edmond was conceived out of wedlock,Shakespeare is connecting Edmond

By giving Kent and Edgar the first and last lines in the play, respectively, Shakespeare

"The worst is not /So long as we can say 'This is the worst.' " Who says this?

In Act V.iii, Edgar and Edmond finally fight. The winner is

____ is the servant of Gonerill's who insults Lear.

To punish Kent for being aggressive towards Gonerill's servant, Cornwall ___.