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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character says, "Politics is the higher form of justice"?
(a) Judge.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Lear.

2. Who advises the king to refuse the war?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) The Captain.
(d) Warrington.

3. Who speaks of an animal in a cage at the trial?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Councillor.
(c) Lear.
(d) Old Sailor.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Which character says, "They are my sheep and if one of them is lost I'd take fire to hell to bring him out"?
(a) Lear.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Cordelia.

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

11. 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) Warrington.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Lear.
(d) Councillor.

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

13. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) The Firing Squad.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Lear.
(d) Bodice.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has ordered Warrington's tongue cut out?

2. Why does the Boy say his wife is upset?

3. Who does the Boy's Wife see outside the house?

4. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?

5. What news from her aides does Fontanelle tell Bodice in Act 2, Scene 4?

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