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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) The War Chamber.
(b) The prison.
(c) The woods.
(d) The King's Quarters.

2. What does the Gravedigger's Boy say his wife would like to do?
(a) Marry the Carpenter.
(b) Put a fence around them.
(c) Betray the king.
(d) Go back to her father.

3. What does Lear beg the son not to do in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Go to the work camps.
(b) Desert him.
(c) Join the army.
(d) Leave the country.

4. Who is McFearson?
(a) The Small Man.
(b) Lear's son.
(c) The Gravedigger Boy's son.
(d) Cordelia's husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who tries to convince Susan to leave with him?

3. Who enters carrying bread and water in Act 1, Scene 5?

4. Whose dress does Bodice wear in the prison cell?

5. Which character says, "They are my sheep and if one of them is lost I'd take fire to hell to bring him out"?

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