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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) The King's Quarters.
(b) The prison.
(c) The War Chamber.
(d) The woods.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. What is the name of the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?
(a) Susan.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Bodice.

9. What does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the soldiers are doing?
(a) Dying en masse.
(b) Pulling down the wall.
(c) Deserting his daughters.
(d) Searching for Warrington.

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

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

12. Who appears to Lear in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Councillor.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Warrington.
(d) The Ghost.

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

14. Whom does Lear ask for while in the prison cell?
(a) Councillor.
(b) His daughters.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Cordelia.

15. Which character says, "I've always wanted to sit on a man's lungs"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Fontanelle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bodice hand to Fontanelle in Act 2, Scene 4?

2. What does Lear ask of Fontanelle while in the prison cell?

3. What does Lear help the Wife do?

4. Who does Fontanelle say posed for her husband's portraits?

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

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