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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character says, "Virility! It'd be easier to get blood out of a stone, and far more probable. I've bribed a major on his staff to shoot him in the battle"?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Susan.
(d) Fontanelle.

2. Who maniacally encourages the torture of Warrington?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Lear.

3. What has killed one of the workers on the wall?
(a) A fallen axe.
(b) A fallen stone.
(c) A bear.
(d) An explosion.

4. How have Lear's daughters had contact with the dukes?
(a) Secret meetings.
(b) Letters and photographs.
(c) Visits with the dukes in the castle.
(d) Through servants.

5. Who does Fontanelle say posed for her husband's portraits?
(a) His son.
(b) His brother.
(c) Himself.
(d) An actor.

6. 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 hired by Cornwall.
(d) Because he's really a traitor.

7. Who is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Lear.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Bodice.

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

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

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

11. What does Fontanelle complain about in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) She is hungry.
(b) She doesn't approve of the wall.
(c) Her hands are cold.
(d) Her feet are wet.

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

13. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) A church.
(b) A battle field.
(c) A prison.
(d) A parade ground.

14. Who says, "We won't chain ourselves to the dead, or send our children to school in the graveyard"?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Lear.
(d) Fontanelle.

15. What does Lear ask of Fontanelle while in the prison cell?
(a) To sit on his lap.
(b) To let him brush her hair.
(c) To sing to him.
(d) To kiss him goodbye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Carpenter's name?

2. Who stabs knitting needles into Warrington's ears?

3. What is the name of the Orderly?

4. Whose dress does Bodice wear in the prison cell?

5. Who is planning to marry the Duke of North?

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