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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Act 3 begin?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy's house.
(b) The castle.
(c) The War Room.
(d) The prison.

2. Why does Bodice say she had troops bring North and Cornwall back?
(a) They need their armies.
(b) She loves her husband.
(c) They will fight the rebels.
(d) They are heroic.

3. Which character says, "O don't waste your hypocrisy on me. You tried to kill yours once. My spies told me and they don't lie. They're the only moral institution in this country"?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Lear.
(d) Cordelia.

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

5. What does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the soldiers are doing?
(a) Searching for Warrington.
(b) Dying en masse.
(c) Deserting his daughters.
(d) Pulling down the wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom are the soldiers looking in Act 3, Scene 1?

2. What does Lear recognize in the well bucket?

3. What character is introduced in Act 3?

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

5. Whose food does Lear offer to the newcomers at the house?

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