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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 is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Lear.
(d) Fontanelle.

2. How have Lear's daughters had contact with the dukes?
(a) Secret meetings.
(b) Letters and photographs.
(c) Through servants.
(d) Visits with the dukes in the castle.

3. Which character says, "I feel confidence in my bones. That's never failed me. If only I were a young man" in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Councillor.
(d) Lear.

4. Who intends to overthrow Lear in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Thomas.
(c) His daughters.
(d) Cordelia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lear insist his enemies hate him?

2. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?

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

4. Who maniacally encourages the torture of Warrington?

5. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?

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