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

2. What do the soldiers do to the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?
(a) Shoot her.
(b) Drown her.
(c) Rape her.
(d) Arrest her.

3. What is the name of the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Susan.
(d) Cordelia.

4. What does Bodice say regarding the prisons in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) They are overflowing.
(b) They had to be evacuated.
(c) They are empty.
(d) They've been burned.

5. What job does the Wife give the Carpenter to do?
(a) Mending the door.
(b) Tending Lear.
(c) Tending the pigs.
(d) Cleaning the well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lear help the Wife do?

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

3. What does the Carpenter bring to the Wife?

4. What weapons do the rebel soldiers carry?

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

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