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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who has been captured in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(b) Lear.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Warrington.

3. Who claims he has been blind for seven years on the stand at Lear's trial?
(a) Lear.
(b) Old Sailor.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Cleric.

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

5. Who is planning to marry the Duke of North?
(a) Cornelia.
(b) Susan.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Fontanelle.

6. 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) Bodice.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Lear.
(d) Cordelia.

7. Who does the Boy's Wife see outside the house?
(a) Councillor.
(b) The Captain.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Warrington.

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

9. Why does Bodice say she had troops bring North and Cornwall back?
(a) They need their armies.
(b) They are heroic.
(c) They will fight the rebels.
(d) She loves her husband.

10. Who does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear has left him, and "wanted a horse to take him to town"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Councillor.
(d) Fontanelle.

11. Who does Lear claim are his enemies?
(a) Duke of Cornwall and Duke of North.
(b) Duke of South and Duke Willingshead.
(c) Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Stonewall.
(d) Duke of North and Duke of Ireland.

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

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

14. What gift from her childhood does Fontanelle remind her father of when she stands trial against him?
(a) A horse.
(b) A bird.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cow.

15. Who foretells how Lear's army will attack in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Cornelia.
(b) North.
(c) Bodice.
(d) The Carpenter.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Where is Lear taken after the trial?

4. What does Bodice say regarding the prisons in Act 2, Scene 4?

5. How have Lear's daughters had contact with the dukes?

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