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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Councillor.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Lear.
(d) Warrington.

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

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

4. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Bodice.

5. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?
(a) Susan.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Bodice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. In Act 2, Scene 1, what does Cornwall suggest be done with Lear?
(a) Free him.
(b) Banish him.
(c) Put him in prison.
(d) Execute him.

13. Why doesn't the Old Orderly know Lear's crime?
(a) He was brainwashed.
(b) He died.
(c) The records were lost.
(d) The fire killed the judge.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character says, "Politics is the higher form of justice"?

2. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?

3. Where did the "wild man" hide?

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

5. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?

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