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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?
(a) Cornelia.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) Warrington.

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

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

4. Where does Act 1, Scene 4 take place?
(a) The chapel.
(b) Prison area.
(c) King's quarters.
(d) The war room.

5. Who does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear has left him, and "wanted a horse to take him to town"?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Councillor.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Warrington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lear help the Wife do?

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

3. Where did the "wild man" hide?

4. Who has died at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1?

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

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