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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Gravedigger's Boy discover the water for the well?
(a) Digging his daughter's grave.
(b) Fighting in a war.
(c) Digging his mother's grave.
(d) Digging his father's grave.

2. Who is McFearson?
(a) The Gravedigger Boy's son.
(b) Lear's son.
(c) The Small Man.
(d) Cordelia's husband.

3. Which character says, "I have lived with murderers and thugs, there are limits to their greed and violence, but you decent, honest men devour the earth"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Councillor.
(c) Lear.
(d) Thomas.

4. Who asks to stay with Lear in his cell?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Ben.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) The Orderly.

5. Who enters with a wooden box in Act 1, Scene 7?
(a) The Carpenter.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Lear.
(d) The Gravedigger's Boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enters carrying bread and water in Act 1, Scene 5?

2. Why does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the Carpenter is always around?

3. Where is the farmer's boy going?

4. Who arrives after the soldiers leave in Act 3 Scene 1?

5. Which character says, "For as long as I can remember there was misery and waste and suffering wherever you were. You live in your own mad world, you can't hear me"?

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