Act 2

Question 1

Gloucester talking about Edgar betraying him

Answer 1

‘O madam, my old heart, it’s cracked it’s cracked’

Question 2

Gloucester misguidedly describing Edmund

Answer 2

‘Loyal and natural boy’

Question 3

Kent insulting Oswald

Answer 3

‘The son and heir of mongrel bitch’

Question 4

Cornwall talking to Kent

Answer 4

‘Fetch forth the stocks… we’ll teach you!’

Question 5

Edgar delivering a soliloquy

Answer 5

‘Edgar I nothing am’

Question 6

The fool saying why the knights have left

Answer 6

‘Great wheel runs down a hill’

Question 7

Regan talking to Lear

Answer 7

‘O sir you are old… you should be ruled and led’

Question 8

Lear to Goneril

Answer 8

‘Art thou not ashamed to look upon this beard’

Question 9

Only one person can be in charge

Answer 9

‘Should many people, under two commands, hold amity’

Question 10

Lear and Regan

Answer 10

‘I gave you all’
‘And in good time you have it’

Question 11

Lear losing all his knights

Answer 11

‘What you need five and twenty? Ten? Five? What need one?’

Question 12

Regan and Cornwall at the end of the act

Answer 12

‘Shut up your doors’

Question 13

Lear’s angry reaction to the reduction of his knights

Answer 13

‘O reason not the need. Our basest beggers are in the poiret thing superfluous’