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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bodice demand be handed to Lear while at the trial?
(a) A goblet.
(b) A baby.
(c) A mirror.
(d) A letter.

3. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Lear's daughters.
(d) The Captain.

4. Why doesn't the Old Orderly know Lear's crime?
(a) The fire killed the judge.
(b) He died.
(c) The records were lost.
(d) He was brainwashed.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Cordelia.
(b) Susan.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Fontanelle.

11. Where did the "wild man" hide?
(a) The house.
(b) The well.
(c) The trees.
(d) The bushes.

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

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

14. What does the Carpenter bring to the Wife?
(a) Bread.
(b) A pig.
(c) A cradle.
(d) A blanket.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?

3. What does the Boy say his wife keeps?

4. What is the name of the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?

5. What does Lear find on the ground in Act 1, Scene 5?

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