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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 is the Carpenter's name?
(a) John.
(b) James.
(c) Eric.
(d) William.

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

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 has been captured in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Lear.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Warrington.

5. In Act 1, Scene 1, who claims to have proof that the "enemies" Lear speaks of are not actually enemies?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) Susan.
(d) Bodice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who foretells how Lear's army will attack in Act 1, Scene 3?

2. What does the Boy say his wife keeps?

3. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?

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

5. Who maniacally encourages the torture of Warrington?

(see the answer key)

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