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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does Carpenter tell the soldiers they don't have left?
(a) A cause.
(b) A HQ.
(c) A leader.
(d) A chance.

4. What does Lear help the Wife do?
(a) Gather the pigs.
(b) Hang laundry.
(c) Pick vegetables.
(d) Cook dinner.

5. How does Fontanelle die?
(a) She is beheaded.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She is hanged.
(d) She is poisoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas say to the villagers after Lear has kicked them all out?

2. What does Fontanelle beg of Lear in Act 2?

3. Why does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the Carpenter is always around?

4. Which character says, "I've always wanted to sit on a man's lungs"?

5. What formation is nearby in Act 2, Scene 7?

(see the answer key)

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