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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. How does Lear order the workman killed in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Crucifixion.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Firing squad.
(d) Drowning.

2. Who enters with a wooden box in Act 1, Scene 7?
(a) Lear.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) The Carpenter.
(d) The Gravedigger's Boy.

3. Which character says, "For as long as I can remember there was misery and waste and suffering wherever you were. You live in your own mad world, you can't hear me"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) Lear.
(d) Fontanelle.

4. Why does the Small Man say he looks ragged to Thomas?
(a) He was fighting in the war.
(b) He was beaten by thugs.
(c) He's been living with wolves.
(d) He's a spy.

5. What do the soldiers do to the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?
(a) Rape her.
(b) Drown her.
(c) Shoot her.
(d) Arrest her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Susan's husband?

2. Why does Lear, in an aside, tell his daughter the workman is being executed?

3. How does Fontanelle die?

4. Who claims he has been blind for seven years on the stand at Lear's trial?

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

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