King Lear

Question 1

‘We have divided

Answer 1

in three our kingdom’ (Lear)- Act 1: Scene 1

Question 2

‘Nothing will

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come of nothing’ (Lear)- Act 1: Scene 1

Question 3

‘He hath ever

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but slenderly known himself’ (Regan)- Act 1: Scene 1

Question 4

‘Thou, nature,

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art my goddess’ (Edmund)- Act 1: Scene 2

Question 5

‘Now Gods,

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stand up for bastards’ (Edmund)- Act 1: Scene 2)

Question 6

‘Villian’

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(x4)- to Edgar not Edmund (Gloucester)- Act 1: Scene 2

Question 7

‘I did

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her wrong’ (Lear)- Act 1: Scene 5

Question 8

‘Fortune, turn

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thy wheel’ (Kent)- Act 2: Scene 2

Question 9

‘Edgar I

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nothing am’ (Edgar)- Act 2: Scene 3

Question 10

‘Thy fifty doth

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double five and twenty and thou art twice her love’ (Lear)- Act 2: Scene 4

Question 11

‘O reason

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not the need’ (Lear)- Act 2: Scene 4

Question 12

‘There is

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division’ (Kent)- Act 3: Scene 1

Question 13

‘Here I stand your

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slave, a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man’ (Lear)- Act 3: Scene 2

Question 14

‘I am a man

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more sinned against than sinning’ (Lear)- Act 3: Scene 2

Question 15

‘The young

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rises when the old doth fall’ (Edmond)- Act 3: Scene 3

Question 16

‘O I have ta’en

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too little care of this’ (Lear)- Act 3: Scene 4

Question 17

‘Didst thou give

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all to thy daughters?’ (Lear)- Act 3: Scene 4

Question 18

‘His wits

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are gone’ (Kent)- Act 3: Scene 4

Question 19

‘Pluck

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out his eyes’ (Goneril)- Act 3: Scene 7

Question 20

‘O, my follies

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then Edgar was abused!’ (Gloucester)- Act 3: Scene 7

Question 21

‘I stumbled

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when I saw’ (Gloucester)- Act 4: Scene 1

Question 22

‘The worst is not

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so long as we can say ‘This is the worst’.’ (Edgar)- Act 1: Scene 4

Question 23

‘He has some reason

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else he could not beg’ (Gloucester)- Act 4: Scene 1

Question 24

‘As flies to

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wanton boys are we to th’gods; they kill us for their sport’ (Gloucester)- Act 4: Scene 1

Question 25

‘I know your

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lady does not love her husband’ (Regan)- Act 4: Scene 4

Question 26

‘Pray do not

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mock me: I am a very foolish, fond old man’ (Lear)- Act 4: Scene 6

Question 27

‘To both these

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sisters I have sworn my love’ (Edmund)- Act 5: Scene 1

Question 28

‘What you have

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charged me with, that I have done, and more, much more’ (Edmund)- Act 5: Scene 3

Question 29

‘The wheel

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is come full circle’ (Edmund)- Act 5: Scene 3

Question 30

‘The one the other poisoned

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for my sake, and after slew herself’ (Edmund)- Act 5: Scene 3

Question 31

‘The gods

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defend her’ (Albany)- Act 5: Scene 3

Question 32

‘All’s cheerless,

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dark and deadly’ (Kent)- Act 5: Scene 3

Question 33

‘Why should a dog,

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a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?’ (Lear)- Act 5: Scene 3

Question 34

‘The oldest

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hath borne most: we that are young shall never see so much or live so long’ (Edgar)- Act 5: Scene 3

Question 35

‘You ever gentle

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gods, take my breath from me’ (Gloucester)- Act 4: Scene 5