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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the Gravedigger's Boy discover the water for the well?
(a) Digging his mother's grave.
(b) Fighting in a war.
(c) Digging his daughter's grave.
(d) Digging his father's grave.

3. What does Bodice hand to Fontanelle in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Their marriage licenses.
(b) Her mirror.
(c) Warrants to sign.
(d) Her wool.

4. What does the Wounded Soldier see before he dies onstage?
(a) His wife.
(b) The moon.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The stars.

5. Why does the Old Orderly come into Lear's cell?
(a) To search it.
(b) To take him to the dungeon.
(c) To take him to the guillotine.
(d) For the plate.

6. Where do Bodice and Fontanelle plan to meet at the end of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) The Council of War.
(b) The Tower.
(c) The Prison.
(d) The Wall.

7. What news from her aides does Fontanelle tell Bodice in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) The rebels have won the war.
(b) Their father has escaped.
(c) Their husbands have run away.
(d) Warrington is on his way.

8. What does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the soldiers are doing?
(a) Deserting his daughters.
(b) Searching for Warrington.
(c) Dying en masse.
(d) Pulling down the wall.

9. What does Lear find on the ground in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) A sword.
(b) Bread.
(c) A dead soldier.
(d) Blood.

10. What is the name of the Orderly?
(a) Ben.
(b) Simon.
(c) John.
(d) William.

11. In Act 2, Scene 1, what does Cornwall suggest be done with Lear?
(a) Free him.
(b) Put him in prison.
(c) Execute him.
(d) Banish him.

12. Who says, "Now I have all the power... and I'm a slave. Worse."?
(a) Lear.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Carpenter.

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

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

15. Why does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the Carpenter is always around?
(a) He's in love with his wife.
(b) He wants to steal the water.
(c) He's spying on them.
(d) He works for the army.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lear respond to the judge when asked, "And these ladies are your daughters?"?

2. What does the Gravedigger's Boy say his wife would like to do?

3. What does Bodice say as she leaves Lear's prison cell?

4. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?

5. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?

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