ENGL 2325 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Paradise Lost
Answer:
John Milton
Question:
2. King Lear
Answer:
William Shakespeare
Question:
3. Tartuffe
Answer:
Moliere
Question:
4. Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, On Sitting Down
to Read King Lear Once Again, When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be, Bright Star
Answer:
John Keats
Question:
5. "I'th'last night's storm I such a fellow saw Which made me think man a worm. My son Came then to my
mind, and yet my mind Was then scarce friends with him. I have heard more since.As flies to wanton boys,
are we to th'gods,They kill us for their sport."
Answer:
Gloucester
Question:
6. Who fights Edmund in Act 5?
Answer:
Edgar
Question:
7. In Act 4 scene 6, how does Gloucester's perspective on life change?
Answer:
He thinks he has miraculously fallen off a cliff unharmed and is granted a second chance at life.
Question:
8. "not being the worstStands in some rank of praise. I'll go with thee.Thy fifty yet doth double
five-and-twenty,And thou art twice her love."
, Answer:
Lear is quantifying his daughters' love based on how many knights each will let him keep. He thinks
Goneril must therefore love him twice as much as Regan.
Question:
9. What is the context of the following quotation?"My wits begin to turn. Come on, my boy. How dost, my
boy? Art cold? I am cold myself. Where is that straw, my fellow?The art of our necessities is strange,That
can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel.Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart That's
sorry yet for thee."
Answer:
Lear wants the Fool to enter the shelter from the storm first, thus marking a change toward compassion.
Question:
10. Which character is an illegitimate child who chooses to "top the legitimate"?
Answer:
Edmund
Question:
11. Who will rule at the end of King Lear?
Answer:
Edgar
Question:
12. What does Cordelia say when Lear says she has a right to be angry at the way she has been treated?
Answer:
"No Cause, no cause"
Question:
13. Which character reproaches King Lear without offending or angering him?
Answer:
The Fool
Question:
14. Whose last words are these?"Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you, undo
this button. Thank you, sir.Do you see this? Look on her. Look, her lips,Look there, look there."
Answer:
King Lear
Question:
15. What is the context of this quotation?"O dear father, It is thy business that I go about; Therefore great
FranceMy mourning and importuned tears hath pitied.No blown ambition doth our arms incite,But love,
dear love, and our aged father's right."
Answer:
With words similar to those the boy Jesus spoke at the Temple, Cordelia explains that she enters Albion
with an army not to invade it for her own gain, but to restore her father's authority.
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Paradise Lost
Answer:
John Milton
Question:
2. King Lear
Answer:
William Shakespeare
Question:
3. Tartuffe
Answer:
Moliere
Question:
4. Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, On Sitting Down
to Read King Lear Once Again, When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be, Bright Star
Answer:
John Keats
Question:
5. "I'th'last night's storm I such a fellow saw Which made me think man a worm. My son Came then to my
mind, and yet my mind Was then scarce friends with him. I have heard more since.As flies to wanton boys,
are we to th'gods,They kill us for their sport."
Answer:
Gloucester
Question:
6. Who fights Edmund in Act 5?
Answer:
Edgar
Question:
7. In Act 4 scene 6, how does Gloucester's perspective on life change?
Answer:
He thinks he has miraculously fallen off a cliff unharmed and is granted a second chance at life.
Question:
8. "not being the worstStands in some rank of praise. I'll go with thee.Thy fifty yet doth double
five-and-twenty,And thou art twice her love."
, Answer:
Lear is quantifying his daughters' love based on how many knights each will let him keep. He thinks
Goneril must therefore love him twice as much as Regan.
Question:
9. What is the context of the following quotation?"My wits begin to turn. Come on, my boy. How dost, my
boy? Art cold? I am cold myself. Where is that straw, my fellow?The art of our necessities is strange,That
can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel.Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart That's
sorry yet for thee."
Answer:
Lear wants the Fool to enter the shelter from the storm first, thus marking a change toward compassion.
Question:
10. Which character is an illegitimate child who chooses to "top the legitimate"?
Answer:
Edmund
Question:
11. Who will rule at the end of King Lear?
Answer:
Edgar
Question:
12. What does Cordelia say when Lear says she has a right to be angry at the way she has been treated?
Answer:
"No Cause, no cause"
Question:
13. Which character reproaches King Lear without offending or angering him?
Answer:
The Fool
Question:
14. Whose last words are these?"Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you, undo
this button. Thank you, sir.Do you see this? Look on her. Look, her lips,Look there, look there."
Answer:
King Lear
Question:
15. What is the context of this quotation?"O dear father, It is thy business that I go about; Therefore great
FranceMy mourning and importuned tears hath pitied.No blown ambition doth our arms incite,But love,
dear love, and our aged father's right."
Answer:
With words similar to those the boy Jesus spoke at the Temple, Cordelia explains that she enters Albion
with an army not to invade it for her own gain, but to restore her father's authority.
