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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Bodice doing at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Pacing.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Writing.

3. Where does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?
(a) Graveyard.
(b) Prison.
(c) Woods.
(d) Courtroom.

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

5. How does Lear respond to the judge when asked, "And these ladies are your daughters?"?
(a) No.
(b) They betrayed me.
(c) I loved them.
(d) Yes.

6. What job does the Wife give the Carpenter to do?
(a) Tending the pigs.
(b) Mending the door.
(c) Tending Lear.
(d) Cleaning the well.

7. Which character says, "I feel confidence in my bones. That's never failed me. If only I were a young man" in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Councillor.
(b) Lear.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Warrington.

8. Who has ordered Warrington's tongue cut out?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Lear.
(d) Bodice.

9. What is the Carpenter's name?
(a) James.
(b) William.
(c) Eric.
(d) John.

10. Who is leading the rebel army against the sisters?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Councillor.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Warrington.

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

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

13. Who asks to stay with Lear in his cell?
(a) The Orderly.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Ben.

14. Who initially protests the execution of the workman at the wall?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) The Gravedigger's Boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lear recognize in the well bucket?

2. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

3. What does Lear ask of Fontanelle while in the prison cell?

4. What does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the soldiers are doing?

5. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?

(see the answer keys)

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