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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lear think attacked him in his sleep?
(a) A wild bear.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A ghost.

2. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?
(a) The King's Chambers.
(b) The Daughters' War Council.
(c) The Battlefield.
(d) The Prison.

3. Why does Lear, in an aside, tell his daughter the workman is being executed?
(a) To make the workers work faster.
(b) Because his hut is unlivable.
(c) Because he's really a traitor.
(d) Because he's hired by Cornwall.

4. Who intends to overthrow Lear in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) His daughters.
(d) Thomas.

5. What does Bodice say as she leaves Lear's prison cell?
(a) I'm taking you to hell with me.
(b) Mother's dead. I must serve tea.
(c) The war has ended.
(d) You'll be executed tomorrow.

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

7. Who has died at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Lear.
(b) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(c) Bodice.
(d) A workman.

8. Who stabs knitting needles into Warrington's ears?
(a) Lear.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Fontanelle.

9. Who appears to Lear in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Councillor.
(d) Cordelia.

10. Whom does Lear accuse of betraying him in court?
(a) Councillor.
(b) Old Sailor.
(c) Judge.
(d) Warrington.

11. What happened to the gift Fontanelle was given as a child?
(a) It was shot.
(b) It was bludgeoned.
(c) It was given away.
(d) It was set afire.

12. Whose dress does Bodice wear in the prison cell?
(a) Her aunt's.
(b) Her daughter's.
(c) Her sister's.
(d) Her mother's.

13. Why do the soldiers enter Lear's prison cell in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) To beat him.
(b) To search it.
(c) To take his daughters away.
(d) To take him to the tower.

14. Who enters carrying bread and water in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Lear.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Warrington.
(d) The Gravedigger's Boy.

15. Which character says, "O don't waste your hypocrisy on me. You tried to kill yours once. My spies told me and they don't lie. They're the only moral institution in this country"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) Lear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?

2. Who is NOT present in Act 1, Scene 3?

3. What job does the Wife give the Carpenter to do?

4. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?

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

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