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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. 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) Councillor.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Lear.

2. Who is planning to marry the Duke of North?
(a) Susan.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Fontanelle.

3. What does Lear recognize in the well bucket?
(a) Blood.
(b) Soil.
(c) A dagger.
(d) A baby.

4. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?
(a) The Captain.
(b) Lear's daughters.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Cordelia.

5. Who foretells how Lear's army will attack in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) North.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) The Carpenter.
(d) Bodice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?

2. Who enters with a wooden box in Act 1, Scene 7?

3. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?

4. What does Fontanelle complain about in Act 1, Scene 1?

5. Which character says, "Virility! It'd be easier to get blood out of a stone, and far more probable. I've bribed a major on his staff to shoot him in the battle"?

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