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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. What is the Carpenter's name?
(a) William.
(b) John.
(c) James.
(d) Eric.

2. Who has died at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(b) Bodice.
(c) A workman.
(d) Lear.

3. Who initially protests the execution of the workman at the wall?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Bodice.

4. Why does Lear, in an aside, tell his daughter the workman is being executed?
(a) Because his hut is unlivable.
(b) To make the workers work faster.
(c) Because he's hired by Cornwall.
(d) Because he's really a traitor.

5. Why does the Boy say his wife is upset?
(a) She's pregnant.
(b) She's crazy.
(c) She's been tortured.
(d) She was raped.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lear insist his enemies hate him?

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

3. 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"?

4. What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 5?

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

(see the answer key)

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