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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Warrington.

2. What does Bodice say regarding the prisons in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) They've been burned.
(b) They are overflowing.
(c) They had to be evacuated.
(d) They are empty.

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) Lear.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) The Ghost.

4. Who is NOT present in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Lear.
(b) North.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Cornwall.

5. In Act 1, Scene 1, who claims to have proof that the "enemies" Lear speaks of are not actually enemies?
(a) Susan.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Cornelia.
(d) Warrington.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?

2. What does Lear help the Wife do?

3. Why doesn't Thomas want the others to stay at the house?

4. Who returns in Act 2, Scene 6?

5. Who tells Lear that Cordelia will come the following day in Act 3, Scene 2?

(see the answer key)

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