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King Lear - Exam
  • 1. What is the full title of 'The Tragedy of King Lear'?
A) King Lear: A Tragic Tale
B) Lear's Tragedy
C) King Lear and His Kingdom
D) The Tragedy of King Lear
  • 2. In which years was 'King Lear' likely written?
A) Between 1599 and 1601
B) Between 1620 and 1625
C) Between 1603 and 1606
D) Between 1610 and 1614
  • 3. Where is 'King Lear' set?
A) Ancient Rome
B) Medieval England
C) Pre-Roman Britain
D) Elizabethan London
  • 4. What significant event occurs in Act I of 'King Lear'?
A) Lear abdicates the throne without conditions.
B) Lear is crowned king by Gloucester.
C) Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters based on their declarations of love.
D) Lear marries Cordelia to the King of France.
  • 5. Which character in 'King Lear' plots against his legitimate brother?
A) Kent
B) Oswald
C) Gloucester
D) Edmund
  • 6. What is the fate of Cordelia at the end of 'King Lear'?
A) Cordelia escapes with Kent to France.
B) Cordelia becomes queen after Lear's abdication.
C) Cordelia dies, leading to Lear's death from grief.
D) Cordelia marries Edgar and lives happily ever after.
  • 7. Who revises 'King Lear' to have a romantic subplot and less bleak ending?
A) Nahum Tate
B) William Shakespeare
C) Harold Bloom
D) John F. Danby
  • 8. Which character in 'King Lear' is known for their disguise as a mad beggar?
A) Kent
B) Oswald
C) Gloucester
D) Edgar
  • 9. What celestial events are referenced in 'King Lear'?
A) Eclipses of the sun and moon
B) A solar flare
C) Comets passing by Earth
D) The alignment of planets
  • 10. Which character in 'King Lear' is blinded as punishment?
A) Gloucester
B) Kent
C) Edmund
D) Lear
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