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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. Who has ordered Warrington's tongue cut out?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Lear.
(d) Fontanelle.

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

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

4. Which character says, "I've always wanted to sit on a man's lungs"?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Warrington.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lear order the workman killed in Act 1, Scene 1?

2. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?

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. Who has died at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1?

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

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