King Lear Act 2 Quotations

Fill in the gap:

"how manifold and ..............a bond/

The child was bound to th'father"

What "hath a privilege"?

• love

• family

• anger

• hate

Cornwall suggests that Edmund has shown his father what sort of 'loyalty'? (3 word quotation)

"No! Rather I abjure all roofs, and choose/ To wage against the enmity o’ th’ air,/ To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,/ ...............................”

Finish the quotation with the correct three words.

What physical action by Goneril and Regan really annoys Lear?

• they hold hands

• they eat a roast dinner

• they kill the Fool

• they hide from him

When in the stocks at the end of Act 2 Scene 2, which Goddess does Kent call upon?

Fill in the gaps (in the correct order - you need to type 5 words with a space between each one!):

"..................that wear rags

Do make their children ................,

But fathers that bear bags

Shall see their children ..................../

.........................., that arrant whore,

Ne’er turns the key to th’ ....................”

What 'mother swells up'? (hint: medical)

What "quality" does Gloucester ascribe to Cornwall?

• fiery

• lemon and herb

• peri peri

• hot

Which is the correct quotation from Lear?

• Vengeance, plague, death, confusion!

• Anger, hell, devils, fury!

• Vengeance, redemption, anger, fire!

• Plague, death, hell, devils!