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King Lear UGC NET questions

1.      Who is the only courtier in the play “King Lear” who disagreed with the king’s decision of dividing the kingdom?
a.          Gloucester
b.         Kent
c.          Edmund
d.         Burgundy

Answer: b

2.       Where did, Lear spent the first portion of his retirement?
a.       Goneril’s Palace
b.      Cordelia’s Palace
c.       Regan’s Palace
d.      At his own palace
Answer:a

Answer:  a
3.       Kent is also called as
a.       Timon
b.      Caius
c.       Oswald
d.      The fool
Anwer:b

4.       What is the curse of King Lear on his daughter Goneril?
a.       That she should die quickly
b.      That her husband should die quickly
c.       That she should live childless
d.      That she should lose her property quickly
Answer:c
5.       Edgar’s other name is
a.       Caius
b.      Oswald
c.       Timon
d.      Tom’O bedlam
Answer: d

6.       The Fools addresses Lear as
a.       Uncle
b.      Father
c.       Majesty
d.      Nuncle
Answer: d
7.       Lear addresses the Fool as
a.       Son
b.      Fool
c.       Boy
d.      Brat
Answer: Boy

8.       Lear compares his daughters with the bird in a song  he sings what is the name of the bird
a.       Skylark
b.      Parrot
c.       Nightingale
d.      Cuckoo
Answer: d
9.       Who orders Kent to be put in stocks (a wooden device)?
a.       Cornwall
b.      Edmund
c.       Goneril
d.      Albany
Answer: a
10.   Whom did Kent attack as a result he was put in stocks?
a.       Cornwall
b.      Oswald
c.       Albany
d.      Edgar
Answer: b
11.   Oswald was the servant of
a.       Goneril
b.      Cordelia
c.       Regan
d.      Cornwall

12.   “ O how this mother swells up towards my heart” the word mother refers to
a.       Suffocation
b.      Anger
c.       Pride
d.      Love
Answer: a (suffocation caused by strong pain in stomach)
13.   Who blind’s Gloucester eyes?
a.       Albany
b.      Edgar
c.       Edmund
d.      Cornwall
Anwer:d

14.   “As flies to wanton boys are we to Gods,
They kill us for their sport”
Who says these oft quoted popular lines?
a.       King Lear
b.      Edgar
c.       Edmund
d.      Gloucester
Answer:d
15.   “Tigers not daughter, what have you performed.”
Who said these lines?
a.       Albany
b.      King Lear
c.       Edgar
d.      Kent
Answer:a
16.   Who kills Oswald?
a.       Edmund
b.      Edgar
c.       Kent
d.      Gloucester
Answer: b





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