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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the original <i>King Lear</i> upon which Bond based his play?
(a) Williams.
(b) Wilson.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Shaw.

2. What formation is nearby in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) The well.
(b) The wall.
(c) Stonehenge.
(d) The tower.

3. Where does Act 3, Scene 3 take place?
(a) The castle.
(b) The woods
(c) The house.
(d) The orchard.

4. Why does the Small Man say he looks ragged to Thomas?
(a) He's been living with wolves.
(b) He was fighting in the war.
(c) He's a spy.
(d) He was beaten by thugs.

5. Who approaches Lear and the Ghost in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) A farmer.
(d) Bodice.

6. What has Cordelia ordered Lear to stop doing?
(a) Feeding the poor.
(b) Speaking publicly.
(c) Arresting soldiers.
(d) Fighting the rebels.

7. What does Fontanelle beg of Lear in Act 2?
(a) To let her be Queen.
(b) To reason with the soldiers to let them free.
(c) To kill himself.
(d) To kill her.

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

9. Who was buried near where Lear is in Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) Susan and Thomas.
(b) Thomas and John.
(c) Warrington and the Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Bodice and Fontanelle.

10. Who leads Susan back into the house at the end of Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) William.
(b) Lear.
(c) John.
(d) Thomas.

11. Who tries to convince Susan to leave with him?
(a) Thomas.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) Lear.
(d) John.

12. Who accompanies Lear in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Commandant.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) The Ghost.

13. What are the soldiers studying in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) A dead soldier.
(b) A ravine.
(c) A canyon.
(d) A map.

14. What does Cordelia ask of Lear in Act 3?
(a) To hand over the stowaways.
(b) To free the pigs.
(c) To stop speaking against the government.
(d) To leave the country.

15. What sound startles the soldiers in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Cannon fire.
(b) A train.
(c) A car.
(d) Gunshots.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom do the soldiers come to take away in Act 3, Scene 2?

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

3. Which character says, "I have lived with murderers and thugs, there are limits to their greed and violence, but you decent, honest men devour the earth"?

4. Who is brought in with a rebel soldier in Act 2, Scene 5?

5. Where does Act 3 begin?

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