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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. Where does Act 1, Scene 4 take place?
(a) Prison area.
(b) King's quarters.
(c) The chapel.
(d) The war room.

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

3. Which character says, "I've always wanted to sit on a man's lungs"?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Warrington.

4. What does the Carpenter bring to the Wife?
(a) A pig.
(b) Bread.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A cradle.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lear think attacked him in his sleep?

3. 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"?

4. In Act 1, Scene 1, who claims to have proof that the "enemies" Lear speaks of are not actually enemies?

5. Who has died at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1?

(see the answer key)

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