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Lear Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) The War Chamber.
(b) The woods.
(c) The King's Quarters.
(d) The prison.

2. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) The Firing Squad.
(b) Lear.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Warrington.

3. In Act 1, Scene 1, who claims to have proof that the "enemies" Lear speaks of are not actually enemies?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Susan.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Cornelia.

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

5. How does Lear order the workman killed in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Firing squad.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Crucifixion.
(d) Hanging.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?

2. Who suggests the workman be imprisoned rather than executed?

3. Who accompanies Lear in Act 1, Scene 5?

4. Who initially protests the execution of the workman at the wall?

5. What gift from her childhood does Fontanelle remind her father of when she stands trial against him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why has Lear written to Cordelia? What does he hope to achieve?

2. How does Lear prove he has undergone a change of character in the last act?

3. Why does Lear tell Cornelia she must destroy the wall? What does he say regarding pity?

4. What is the significance of the location of Act 3, Scene 3?

5. How does Lear feel about the Duke of North and the Duke of Cornwall? Why?

6. What is the argument between Lear and the Gravedigger's Wife? How do these characters feel about each other?

7. Why do Fontanelle and Bodice capture their husbands and keep them imprisoned?

8. Who do Thomas and Susan reflect from earlier in the play? How?

9. Describe Lear's reaction to the mirror in the court scene.

10. What do Thomas and Ben reveal to Lear that they plan to do in Act 3, Scene 2? Why?

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