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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bodice say regarding the prisons in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) They are overflowing.
(b) They are empty.
(c) They've been burned.
(d) They had to be evacuated.

3. What does Lear find on the ground in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Blood.
(b) Bread.
(c) A sword.
(d) A dead soldier.

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

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

6. Why do the soldiers enter Lear's prison cell in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) To search it.
(b) To take his daughters away.
(c) To beat him.
(d) To take him to the tower.

7. How does Lear order the workman killed in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Crucifixion.
(b) Firing squad.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Hanging.

8. What happened to the gift Fontanelle was given as a child?
(a) It was set afire.
(b) It was bludgeoned.
(c) It was shot.
(d) It was given away.

9. What does Lear help the Wife do?
(a) Pick vegetables.
(b) Hang laundry.
(c) Cook dinner.
(d) Gather the pigs.

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

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

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

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

14. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A knife.
(c) A dead pig.
(d) Warrington's body.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Boy say his wife keeps?

2. Who is present in Act 2, Scene 3?

3. How did the Gravedigger's Boy discover the water for the well?

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

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

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