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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 accompanies Lear in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Councillor.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Cordelia.

2. Who is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Lear.
(d) Cordelia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is planning to marry the Duke of North?

2. Who has ordered Warrington's tongue cut out?

3. Why does Lear insist his enemies hate him?

4. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?

5. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?

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