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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is leading the rebel army against the sisters?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Councillor.

2. What does Bodice demand be handed to Lear while at the trial?
(a) A baby.
(b) A goblet.
(c) A letter.
(d) A mirror.

3. Who spots Lear and creeps up on him from behind in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Councillor.
(d) Fontanelle.

4. Who does Lear claim are his enemies?
(a) Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Stonewall.
(b) Duke of North and Duke of Ireland.
(c) Duke of Cornwall and Duke of North.
(d) Duke of South and Duke Willingshead.

5. Who maniacally encourages the torture of Warrington?
(a) Lear.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Fontanelle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the soldiers do to the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?

2. What does the Carpenter bring to the Wife?

3. How did the Gravedigger's Boy discover the water for the well?

4. Why does Lear, in an aside, tell his daughter the workman is being executed?

5. Who has been captured in Act 1, Scene 4?

(see the answer key)

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