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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. What job does the Wife give the Carpenter to do?
(a) Tending Lear.
(b) Mending the door.
(c) Cleaning the well.
(d) Tending the pigs.

2. Who spots Lear and creeps up on him from behind in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Councillor.
(d) Warrington.

3. What does Lear help the Wife do?
(a) Pick vegetables.
(b) Hang laundry.
(c) Cook dinner.
(d) Gather the pigs.

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

5. Who does the Boy's Wife see outside the house?
(a) The Captain.
(b) Councillor.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Bodice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?

2. Who has ordered Warrington's tongue cut out?

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

4. What action does Bodice perform throughout Act 1, Scene 3?

5. What do the soldiers do to the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?

(see the answer key)

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