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Shakespeare's 'King Lear' Quiz Challenge - How Much Do You Know? | Shakespeare

Have you read King Lear? Try this quiz.... It's fairly easy.

A multiple-choice quiz by JCSon. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
JCSon

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
8,245

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
1744

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Which noble refuses to take Cordelia to wife because she has no dowry? Hint

Earl of Gloucester

Duke of Albany

Duke of Burgundy

Duke of Cornwall

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who is banished for speaking plainly to Lear? Hint

Oswald

Regan

Kent

Edmund

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Question 3 of 10

3. In the play's conclusion, for whose love do the two eldest daughters of King Lear compete? Hint

Edmund

Oswald

Edgar

Kent

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Question 4 of 10

4. How does Goneril die? Hint

She hangs herself

She stabs herself

Her sister poisons her

Her sister stabs her

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who says, 'This shows you are above, You justicers, that these our nether crimes So speedily can venge'? Hint

King Lear

Duke of Albany

Cordelia

Edgar

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who does Kent disguise himself as? Hint

Phidias

Poor Tom

Caius

A fiend

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Question 7 of 10

7. Regan is wife to which noble? Hint

Duke of Albany

King of France

Duke of Burgundy

Duke of Cornwall

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who grinds out the Earl of Gloucester's eyes with his heel? Hint

Duke of Albany

King Lear

Duke of Cornwall

Edmund

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Question 9 of 10

9. Where does the Earl of Gloucester send King Lear? Hint

Gallia

France

Dover

Burgundy

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Question 10 of 10

10. Kent is put in the stocks for beating who? Hint

Caius

Curan

Edmund

Oswald

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which noble refuses to take Cordelia to wife because she has no dowry?

Answer: Duke of Burgundy

2. Who is banished for speaking plainly to Lear?

Answer: Kent

King Lear intends to divide his realm among his three daughters, promising the largest share to the one who loves him most. The elder Goneril and Regan flatter their father with their professions of love, but Cordelia's plain honesty is somewhat less than satisfactory to the king. Cordelia, therefore, finds herself disinherited, and when Kent (rightly) comes to her defense, he is banished from the realm for failing to hold his tongue.

3. In the play's conclusion, for whose love do the two eldest daughters of King Lear compete?

Answer: Edmund

4. How does Goneril die?

Answer: She stabs herself

5. Who says, 'This shows you are above, You justicers, that these our nether crimes So speedily can venge'?

Answer: Duke of Albany

6. Who does Kent disguise himself as?

Answer: Caius

7. Regan is wife to which noble?

Answer: Duke of Cornwall

8. Who grinds out the Earl of Gloucester's eyes with his heel?

Answer: Duke of Cornwall

In another version (according to a quiz taker), Cornwall uses his fingers to gouge out Gloucester's eyes.

9. Where does the Earl of Gloucester send King Lear?

Answer: Dover

10. Kent is put in the stocks for beating who?

Answer: Oswald

Source: Author JCSon

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