Act 1

Question 1

Gloucester’s comment on Edmund’s making

Answer 1

‘Good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged’

Question 2

Lear talking to his three daughters at the start of the play

Answer 2

‘Divided in three our kingdom… while we unburdened crawl towards death’

Question 3

Goneril flattering Lear

Answer 3

‘I love you more than word can wield the matter. Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty’

Question 4

Regan worshipping her father

Answer 4

‘I am made of the same self mettle as my sister… I profess an enemy to all other joys’

Question 5

Cordelia explaining that she cannot say what she doesn’t feel

Answer 5

‘I cannot heave my heart into my mouth’

Question 6

Lear to Cordelia after she refuses to flatter him

Answer 6

‘Nothing will come of nothing’

Question 7

Lear disowning Cordelia

Answer 7

‘I disclaim all parental care, prop inquiry and property of blood’

Question 8

Lear talking to Kent about Cordelia

Answer 8

‘I loved her most, and thought to set rest on her kind nursery’

Question 9

Kent talking to Lear about Cordelia

Answer 9

‘As a pawn’

Question 10

Kent advising Lear not to judge Cordelia

Answer 10

‘See better Lear’

Question 11

Edmund’s soliloquy

Answer 11

‘Wherefore base… Edmund the base’

Question 12

Edmund at the end of act 1 scene 2

Answer 12

‘Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit’

Question 13

Goneril talking about Lear

Answer 13

‘Old fools are babes again’

Question 14

Goneril telling Oswald to be rude to Lear

Answer 14

‘Put on what weary negligence you please’

Question 15

Response to Who am I Sir

Answer 15

‘My Lady’s father’

Question 16

Fool mocking Lear for giving away power

Answer 16

‘Give me an egg and I’ll give there two crowns’

Question 17

Fool saying what Lear is

Answer 17

‘Lear’s shadow’

Question 18

Goneril describing Lear’s knights

Answer 18

‘Riotous’

Question 19

Goneril saying the fool can get away with anything

Answer 19

‘Your all licensed fool’

Question 20

Lear wishing something upon Goneril

Answer 20

‘Into her womb convey sterility’

Question 21

Lear talking to Goneril after she suggests to reduce his knights

Answer 21

‘Sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless xhild’

Question 22

Goneril describing her husbands personality

Answer 22

‘Milky gentleness’

Question 23

Lear talking about Cordelia

Answer 23

‘I did her wrong’

Question 24

Lear taking to the fool

Answer 24

‘O let me not be mad, not mad sweet heaven’