SparkNotes: King Lear: Quiz

1. Lear is king of what country?

(A) France

(B) Britain

(C) East Anglia

(D) Scotland

2. Which one of Lear’s daughters is sent into exile?

(A) Goneril

(B) Regan

(C) Cordelia

(D) Juliet

3. Which one of Lear’s counselors reprimands the king for exiling his daughter?

(A) Albany

(B) Kent

(C) Cornwall

(D) Edmund

4. Who is Gloucester’s bastard son?

(A) Kent

(B) Edgar

(C) Albany

(D) Edmund

5. When Lear visits Goneril, what does she demand of him?

(A) That he acknowledge her as the sole queen of the realm

(B) That he send away some of his knights

(C) That he execute Cordelia

(D) That he send away the Fool

6. When they hear that Lear is coming to visit them, where do Regan and Cornwall go?

(A) To Gloucester’s castle

(B) To France

(C) To Goneril’s home

(D) To London

7. Why is Kent thrown into the stocks?

(A) For trying to kill Goneril

(B) For beating Oswald with the flat of his sword

(C) For threatening Lear’s life

(D) For praising Cordelia in public

8. When he flees from his father, how does Edgar disguise himself?

(A) As a common beggar

(B) As a soldier

(C) As Edmund

(D) As Shakespeare

9. When Lear tells Regan that Goneril has wronged him, what does Regan advise him to do?

(A) Kill himself

(B) Banish Goneril

(C) Make Regan the sole queen

(D) Go to Goneril and ask her forgiveness

10. After he curses both Goneril and Regan, what does Lear do?

(A) He storms out of Gloucester’s castle, accompanied by the Fool

(B) He disinherits both daughters

(C) He sets out in search of Cordelia

(D) He dies

11. Whom does Lear meet living in a little hovel on the heath?

(A) Albany

(B) Edgar, in disguise

(C) Cordelia

(D) Edmund

12. Why is Gloucester accused of treason?

(A) Because he attempts to assassinate Goneril and Regan

(B) Because he throws Lear in prison

(C) Because he exiles Edgar

(D) Because Edmund reveals letters showing that he knows of a French invasion

13. Where does Gloucester send Lear and his attendants?

(A) To Dover

(B) To London

(C) To Gloucester’s castle

(D) To Goneril’s castle

14. How is Gloucester punished for his “treason”?

(A) He is burned

(B) He is blinded

(C) He is branded with a scarlet letter

(D) He is exiled

15. Who encounters Gloucester on the heath and offers to lead him to Dover?

(A) The Fool

(B) Edmund

(C) Edgar

(D) Lear

16. Who is leading the army that lands at Dover?

(A) Albany

(B) Kent

(C) Cordelia

(D) Lear

17. Why does Gloucester want to reach the cliffs of Dover?

(A) He wants to see the invasion fleet

(B) He thinks Edgar is waiting for him there

(C) He wants to throw himself over the cliffs

(D) He wants to see the famed white cliffs before he dies

18. To whom are both Goneril and Regan attracted?

(A) Edmund

(B) Edgar

(C) Albany

(D) Cornwall

19. Before the battle between the French and English armies, to whose camp is Lear brought?

(A) Cordelia’s

(B) Edmund’s

(C) Gloucester’s

(D) Albany’s

20. What happens to Lear and Cordelia during the battle?

(A) They are separated from one another

(B) Edmund takes them captive

(C) They are both killed

(D) Cordelia is killed and Lear is taken captive

21. How does Regan die?

(A) Edgar kills her

(B) Edmund poisons her

(C) She kills herself

(D) Goneril poisons her

22. Who fights a duel with Edmund?

(A) Albany

(B) Gloucester

(C) Edgar

(D) Lear

23. What does Edmund reveal as he lies dying?

(A) That he ordered Cordelia killed

(B) That he is really Lear’s son

(C) That he was in love with Cordelia

(D) That he killed Gloucester during the battle

24. What happens to Cordelia?

(A) She kills herself

(B) She is hanged in prison

(C) She marries Edgar

(D) She kills Goneril

25. What happens to Lear at the end of the play?

(A) His kingdom is restored

(B) He kills himself

(C) He orders Regan and Goneril executed

(D) He dies while weeping over Cordelia’s body