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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. Where is Lear taken after the trial?
(a) The graveyard.
(b) The guillotine.
(c) The firing squad.
(d) A prison cell.

2. Who does Lear claim are his enemies?
(a) Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Stonewall.
(b) Duke of Cornwall and Duke of North.
(c) Duke of North and Duke of Ireland.
(d) Duke of South and Duke Willingshead.

3. How does Lear respond to the judge when asked, "And these ladies are your daughters?"?
(a) Yes.
(b) They betrayed me.
(c) I loved them.
(d) No.

4. Who does Carpenter tell Fontanelle has been captured?
(a) Lear.
(b) Bodice.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Cordelia.

5. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Susan.
(d) Fontanelle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bodice say regarding the prisons in Act 2, Scene 4?

3. Who foretells how Lear's army will attack in Act 1, Scene 3?

4. What does Lear ask of Fontanelle while in the prison cell?

5. What happens to the captured soldier in Act 2, Scene 3?

(see the answer key)

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