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

2. Why does the Boy say his wife is upset?
(a) She's been tortured.
(b) She's crazy.
(c) She was raped.
(d) She's pregnant.

3. Who is brought in with a rebel soldier in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Leonice.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Cordelia.

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

5. What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) The War Chamber.
(b) The King's Quarters.
(c) The prison.
(d) The woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act 1, Scene 1, who claims to have proof that the "enemies" Lear speaks of are not actually enemies?

2. How have Lear's daughters had contact with the dukes?

3. What has killed one of the workers on the wall?

4. What news from her aides does Fontanelle tell Bodice in Act 2, Scene 4?

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

(see the answer key)

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