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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Where does Act 1, Scene 4 take place?
(a) Prison area.
(b) The chapel.
(c) The war room.
(d) King's quarters.

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

5. Who maniacally encourages the torture of Warrington?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Lear.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Cordelia.

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Lear insist his enemies hate him?
(a) He has built a wall.
(b) He has starved their people.
(c) He killed their fathers.
(d) He has taken their kingdoms.

11. Whom does Lear accuse of betraying him in court?
(a) Judge.
(b) Councillor.
(c) Old Sailor.
(d) Warrington.

12. Who suggests the workman be imprisoned rather than executed?
(a) Lear.
(b) Warrington.
(c) The Duke of Westminster.
(d) The Duke of Cornwall.

13. Who says, "To fight like us you must hate. We can't trust a man unless he hates"?
(a) Lear.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Carpenter.
(d) Cordelia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lear order the workman killed in Act 1, Scene 1?

2. How does Lear respond to the judge when asked, "And these ladies are your daughters?"?

3. Who initially protests the execution of the workman at the wall?

4. What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 5?

5. Who asks to stay with Lear in his cell?

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