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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?
(a) The Captain.
(b) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Lear's daughters.

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

3. Who says, "We won't chain ourselves to the dead, or send our children to school in the graveyard"?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Lear.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Warrington.

4. What does Bodice say as she leaves Lear's prison cell?
(a) Mother's dead. I must serve tea.
(b) I'm taking you to hell with me.
(c) You'll be executed tomorrow.
(d) The war has ended.

5. Why does Bodice say she had troops bring North and Cornwall back?
(a) She loves her husband.
(b) They are heroic.
(c) They need their armies.
(d) They will fight the rebels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the prisoners pass around in Act 2, Scene 5?

2. What is the name of the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?

3. Who asks to stay with Lear in his cell?

4. How does Fontanelle die?

5. What does Lear beg the son not to do in Act 2, Scene 7?

(see the answer key)

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