Select the correct answer.Read the excerpt from King Lear: Act 4, Scene 7.KING LEAR: Be your tears wet? yes, 'faith. I pray, weep not:If you have poison for me, I will drink it.(70) I know you do not love me; for your sistersHave, as I do remember, done me wrong:CORDELIA: No cause, no cause.Which statement best explains why Lear agrees to drink poison if that is what Cordelia wants? A. Lear feels he has no choice but to accept being poisoned since he is weak and cannot resist. B. Lear believes death would be more peaceful than living with the memory of his past mistakes. C. Lear would rather be poisoned than have to think of the many ways Cordelia has disappointed him. D. Lear believes he deserves to be poisoned because of the way he treated Cordelia in the past.

Select the correct text in the passage.Select the text that best supports the inference that Cordelia has forgiven King Lear.LEAR: …I think this ladyTo be my child Cordelia.CORDELIA: And so I am, I am.KING LEAR: Be your tears wet? yes, 'faith. I pray, weep not:If you have poison for me, I will drink it.(70) I know you do not love me; for your sistersHave, as I do remember, done me wrong:You have some cause, they have not.CORDELIA: No cause, no cause.KING LEAR: Am I in France?

Select the correct answer.Read the excerpt from King Lear: Act 4, Scene 7.DOCTOR: Be comforted, good madam: the great rage,You see, is kill'd in him: and yet it is dangerTo make him even o'er the time he has lost.(80) Desire him to go in; trouble him no moreTill further settling.What do the words the doctor speaks to Cordelia reveal about King Lear? A. King Lear has fully recovered from his illness, but he may relapse at any moment. B. King Lear should not be overly excited because his health remains unstable.  C. King Lear has died peacefully, and Cordelia is now free of his anger and madness. D. King Lear should be prompted by Cordelia to remember his past actions.

Select the correct answer.Read the excerpt from King Lear: Act 4, Scene 7.(55) KING LEAR: Pray, do not mock me:I am a very foolish fond old man,Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;And, to deal plainly,I fear I am not in my perfect mind.(60) Methinks I should know you, and know this man;Yet I am doubtful for I am mainly ignorantWhat place this is; and all the skill I haveRemembers not these garments; nor I know notWhere I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;(65) For, as I am a man, I think this ladyTo be my child Cordelia.How do the lines in the excerpt develop the character of King Lear? A. The lines reveal that King Lear feels confused and vulnerable. B. The lines reveal that King Lear feels himself to be a burden. C. The lines reveal that King Lear is devoted to his role as king. D. The lines reveal that King Lear resents his daughter Cordelia.

Read this passage:LADY MACBETH. Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt beWhat thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;It is too full o' th' milk of human kindnessTo catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great,Art not without ambition, but withoutThe illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly,That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'ld'st have, great Glamis,That which cries, "Thus thou must do," if thou have it,And that which rather thou dost fear to do,Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither,That I may pour my spirits in thine earAnd chastise with the valor of my tongueAll that impedes thee from the golden round,Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seemTo have thee crowned withal.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene vIn the passage, what does Lady Macbeth fear about her husband?A.That he won't be strong enough to kill the king and further his own ambitionsB.That he will become too superstitious and want more prophecies from the witchesC.That he will become power-hungry and try to kill the king himselfD.That he will not accept the title of king if it is offered to himSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read this passage:LADY MACBETH. Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt beWhat thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;It is too full o' th' milk of human kindnessTo catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great,Art not without ambition, but withoutThe illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly,That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'ld'st have, great Glamis,That which cries, "Thus thou must do," if thou have it,And that which rather thou dost fear to do,Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither,That I may pour my spirits in thine earAnd chastise with the valor of my tongueAll that impedes thee from the golden round,Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seemTo have thee crowned withal.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene vWhat evidence from the text supports the idea that Lady Macbeth questions her husband's resolve to kill the king?A.Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be / What thou art promised.B.What thou wouldst highly, / That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, / And yet wouldst wrongly win.C.Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem / To have thee crowned withal.D.Hie thee hither, / That I may pour my spirits in thine earSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS