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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 does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the soldiers are doing?
(a) Pulling down the wall.
(b) Deserting his daughters.
(c) Searching for Warrington.
(d) Dying en masse.

2. What does Lear think attacked him in his sleep?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A wild bear.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A ghost.

3. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Susan.
(d) Fontanelle.

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

5. What does Lear find on the ground in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Blood.
(b) Bread.
(c) A sword.
(d) A dead soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has killed one of the workers on the wall?

2. Who does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear has left him, and "wanted a horse to take him to town"?

3. Which of the following is one of Lear's daughters?

4. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?

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

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