Lear Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Lear Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bodice demand be handed to Lear while at the trial?
(a) A letter.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A baby.
(d) A goblet.

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

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

5. Which of the following is one of Lear's daughters?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Susan.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Cordelia.

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

7. What weapons do the rebel soldiers carry?
(a) Scimitars.
(b) Swords.
(c) Battle-axes.
(d) Rifles.

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

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

10. What does the Wounded Soldier see before he dies onstage?
(a) His wife.
(b) The moon.
(c) The stars.
(d) The ocean.

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

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

13. Why does the Boy say his wife is upset?
(a) She's crazy.
(b) She's pregnant.
(c) She was raped.
(d) She's been tortured.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Lear in Act 1, Scene 5?

2. Who says, "We won't chain ourselves to the dead, or send our children to school in the graveyard"?

3. 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"?

4. Where did the "wild man" hide?

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

(see the answer keys)

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