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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is leading Lear in Act 3, Scene 4?
(a) Jason.
(b) Thomas.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Susan.

2. What does Thomas say to the villagers after Lear has kicked them all out?
(a) To leave the country.
(b) To wait in the village.
(c) To go to the camps.
(d) To go to Cordelia.

3. Where are the civilians being sent in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) To the highlands.
(b) A work camp.
(c) To war.
(d) To the well.

4. To whom does Lear say, "Don't ask them for favours. Walk with us. Be gentle and don't pull," in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) Carpenter.

5. Who says, "But if you listened to everything your conscience told you you'd go mad. You'd never get anything done--and there's a lot to do, some of it very hard"?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Lear.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Carpenter.

6. What historical event shaped Edward Bond's writing?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Great Famine.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) World War II.

7. Who is brought in with a rebel soldier in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Leonice.
(d) Fontanelle.

8. What is one of the main themes of Lear?
(a) Sex.
(b) Love.
(c) Violence.
(d) Beauty.

9. For whom are the soldiers looking in Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) Susan.
(b) The Small Man.
(c) Lear.
(d) Thomas.

10. What year was <i>Lear</i> written?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1705.

11. Who arrives after the soldiers leave in Act 3 Scene 1?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Ben.

12. Whose food does Lear offer to the newcomers at the house?
(a) Thomas's.
(b) Cordelia's.
(c) His own.
(d) Susan's.

13. Whom does Lear want to write to in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) The Gravedigger's Boy.

14. What does Lear do in the last scene of the play?
(a) Attempts to dig up the wall.
(b) Chases away the pigs.
(c) Hangs himself.
(d) Shoots Cordelia.

15. How much time passes between Act 3, Scene 1 and Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) One day.
(b) One year.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Several months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Act 3 begin?

2. Who is gagged in Act 2, Scene 5?

3. What formation is nearby in Act 2, Scene 7?

4. What do the soldiers tell the Small Man will be done to him in Act 3, Scene 2?

5. What does Carpenter tell the soldiers they don't have left?

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