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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does the Wife give the Carpenter to do?
(a) Mending the door.
(b) Tending Lear.
(c) Tending the pigs.
(d) Cleaning the well.

2. Who stabs knitting needles into Warrington's ears?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Lear.
(d) Cordelia.

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

4. Who is leading the rebel army against the sisters?
(a) Councillor.
(b) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Cordelia.

5. Why does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the Carpenter is always around?
(a) He's in love with his wife.
(b) He's spying on them.
(c) He works for the army.
(d) He wants to steal the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the gift Fontanelle was given as a child?

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

3. Which character says, "Politics is the higher form of justice"?

4. In Act 2, Scene 1, what does Cornwall suggest be done with Lear?

5. Who spots Lear and creeps up on him from behind in Act 1, Scene 5?

(see the answer key)

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