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

2. Why does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the Carpenter is always around?
(a) He works for the army.
(b) He's spying on them.
(c) He wants to steal the water.
(d) He's in love with his wife.

3. What gift from her childhood does Fontanelle remind her father of when she stands trial against him?
(a) A cow.
(b) A horse.
(c) A bird.
(d) A dog.

4. What happens to the captured soldier in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) He joins the rebels.
(b) He is hanged.
(c) He is freed.
(d) He is shot.

5. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?
(a) The Battlefield.
(b) The King's Chambers.
(c) The Prison.
(d) The Daughters' War Council.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?

2. What does Lear help the Wife do?

3. What is the name of the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?

4. Whom does Lear accuse of betraying him in court?

5. Who enters with a wooden box in Act 1, Scene 7?

(see the answer key)

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