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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?
(a) The King's Chambers.
(b) The Daughters' War Council.
(c) The Battlefield.
(d) The Prison.

5. Who accompanies Lear in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Councillor.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Warrington.

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

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

8. Who asks to stay with Lear in his cell?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) The Orderly.
(d) Ben.

9. Who is present in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) All of the answers are true.
(d) Cordelia.

10. What does Lear recognize in the well bucket?
(a) A baby.
(b) Soil.
(c) Blood.
(d) A dagger.

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

12. 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) Lear.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Councillor.

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

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

15. Why does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the Carpenter is always around?
(a) He wants to steal the water.
(b) He's in love with his wife.
(c) He works for the army.
(d) He's spying on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Carpenter's name?

2. What does Bodice say as she leaves Lear's prison cell?

3. Which character says, "I've always wanted to sit on a man's lungs"?

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

5. What do the soldiers do to the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?

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