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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?
(a) Woods.
(b) Courtroom.
(c) Prison.
(d) Graveyard.

3. What does Lear help the Wife do?
(a) Gather the pigs.
(b) Cook dinner.
(c) Pick vegetables.
(d) Hang laundry.

4. What news from her aides does Fontanelle tell Bodice in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Their husbands have run away.
(b) Their father has escaped.
(c) Warrington is on his way.
(d) The rebels have won the war.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to sit on the witness stand at Lear's trial?

2. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?

3. Who is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. Which character says, "Virility! It'd be easier to get blood out of a stone, and far more probable. I've bribed a major on his staff to shoot him in the battle"?

5. Who does Fontanelle say posed for her husband's portraits?

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