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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. Who accompanies Lear in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Councillor.
(d) Cordelia.

2. Where did the "wild man" hide?
(a) The well.
(b) The trees.
(c) The bushes.
(d) The house.

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

4. Who is NOT present in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) North.
(b) Lear.
(c) Cornwall.
(d) Bodice.

5. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) The Firing Squad.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Lear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who maniacally encourages the torture of Warrington?

2. Why does Lear insist his enemies hate him?

3. What does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the soldiers are doing?

4. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?

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

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