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

2. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Susan.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) Cordelia.

3. Why does Lear insist his enemies hate him?
(a) He killed their fathers.
(b) He has taken their kingdoms.
(c) He has starved their people.
(d) He has built a wall.

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

5. Who does Fontanelle say posed for her husband's portraits?
(a) His brother.
(b) His son.
(c) Himself.
(d) An actor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

3. How have Lear's daughters had contact with the dukes?

4. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?

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

(see the answer key)

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