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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 asks to stay with Lear in his cell?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Ben.
(c) The Orderly.
(d) Cordelia.

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

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

4. Who has died at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) A workman.
(b) Lear.
(c) Bodice.
(d) The Gravedigger's Boy.

5. Who is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Lear.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Cordelia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Boy's Wife see outside the house?

2. Who initially protests the execution of the workman at the wall?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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