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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Act 3, Scene 3 take place?
(a) The house.
(b) The castle.
(c) The orchard.
(d) The woods

2. Who says, "I came here when I was cold and hungry and afraid. I wasn't turned away, and I won't turn anyone away"?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Lear.
(c) The Small Man.
(d) Susan.

3. Where has Lear been taken from in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) The well.
(b) The prison.
(c) The church.
(d) The graveyard.

4. What does Lear do in the last scene of the play?
(a) Shoots Cordelia.
(b) Hangs himself.
(c) Chases away the pigs.
(d) Attempts to dig up the wall.

5. What historical event shaped Edward Bond's writing?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Great Famine.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

6. Who accompanies Lear in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) Commandant.
(d) Cordelia.

7. What has Cordelia ordered Lear to stop doing?
(a) Feeding the poor.
(b) Speaking publicly.
(c) Fighting the rebels.
(d) Arresting soldiers.

8. Where does Act 2, Scene 6 take place?
(a) The woods.
(b) Lear's cell.
(c) The battlefield.
(d) The War Room.

9. Who approaches Lear and the Ghost in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) A farmer.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) Cordelia.

10. What do the soldiers contemplate doing in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Deserting.
(c) Murder.
(d) Interrogation.

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

12. Who tries to convince Susan to leave with him?
(a) Lear.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) Thomas.
(d) John.

13. What does the Small Man say they're saying in the camps?
(a) That Cordelia will have them all killed.
(b) That Lear will blow up the wall.
(c) That Lear is a traitor.
(d) That there's a revolution brewing.

14. Who says, "I tried to follow you but when we got out in the open the wind was too strong, it pushed me back"?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) The Ghost.

15. Who offers to go infiltrate the camps and gain support against the crown in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Lear.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Ben.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound startles the soldiers in Act 2, Scene 5?

2. Whom does Lear want to write to in Act 2, Scene 7?

3. Who arrives asking for water in Act 3, Scene 1?

4. Who does Lear want to live for at the end of Act 2, Scene 5?

5. What are the soldiers studying in Act 2, Scene 5?

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