King Lear

Length 5:27    Level - III

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  1. King Lear is a _________.

    poem
    novel
    song
    play

  2. Which is a problem with King Lear?

    length
    staging
    love
    violence

  3. King Lear doesn't understand the nature of ________.

    love
    money
    children
    property

  4. Who says she loves Lear more than her eyesight?

    The first daughter
    The second daughter
    The third daughter
    The fourth daughter

  5. Who says nothing?

    The first daughter
    The second daughter
    The third daughter
    The fourth daughter

  6. Which daughter is his favorite?

    The first daughter
    The second daughter
    The third daughter
    The fourth daughter

  7. Who are the two men who want to marry Cordelia?

    Goneril and Regan
    Regan and France
    France and Burgundy
    Burgundy and Lear

  8. What romantic thing does Cordelia's future husband say?

    nothing
    I'm not having her.
    All of her worth is intrinsic.
    She is herself a dowry.

  9. Cordelia later finds Lear

    happy on a mountain
    mad on a beach
    dressed in gold
    in love

  10. Lear realizes that

    Nothing means everything
    Anything means something
    Something means everything
    Anything means nothing


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