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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who appears to Lear in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Councillor.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Cordelia.

3. Which character says, "Politics is the higher form of justice"?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Judge.
(d) Lear.

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

5. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Cornelia.
(d) Bodice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?

2. 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"?

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

4. Why does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the Carpenter is always around?

5. What does Lear help the Wife do?

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