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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scenes 2, 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who suggests the workman be imprisoned rather than executed?
(a) Lear.
(b) The Duke of Cornwall.
(c) Warrington.
(d) The Duke of Westminster.

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

4. 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"?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Susan.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?

3. Why does Lear, in an aside, tell his daughter the workman is being executed?

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

5. Who intends to overthrow Lear in Act 1, Scene 1?

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