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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 advises the king to refuse the war?
(a) The Captain.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Warrington.

2. Who suggests the workman be imprisoned rather than executed?
(a) Lear.
(b) Warrington.
(c) The Duke of Westminster.
(d) The Duke of Cornwall.

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

4. What action does Bodice perform throughout Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) She paints.
(b) She sings.
(c) She paces.
(d) She knits.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which character says, "I've always wanted to sit on a man's lungs"?

3. How does Lear order the workman killed in Act 1, Scene 1?

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

5. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?

(see the answer key)

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