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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 is NOT present in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Cornwall.
(b) North.
(c) Lear.
(d) Bodice.

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

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

4. Who initially protests the execution of the workman at the wall?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Fontanelle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lear claim are his enemies?

2. Who has ordered Warrington's tongue cut out?

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. Who is leading the rebel army against the sisters?

5. Who is planning to marry the Duke of North?

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