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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom do the soldiers come to take away in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Ben and the Small Man.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Cordelia and the Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Lear.

2. How does Fontanelle die?
(a) She is beheaded.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She is poisoned.
(d) She is hanged.

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

4. Where does Act 2, Scene 6 take place?
(a) The War Room.
(b) Lear's cell.
(c) The battlefield.
(d) The woods.

5. Who says, "I came here when I was cold and hungry and afraid. I wasn't turned away, and I won't turn anyone away"?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Susan.
(c) The Small Man.
(d) Lear.

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

7. Who does Carpenter tell Fontanelle has been captured?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Lear.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Bodice.

8. Which character says, "For as long as I can remember there was misery and waste and suffering wherever you were. You live in your own mad world, you can't hear me"?
(a) Lear.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) The Ghost.

9. What do the prisoners pass around in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Bread.
(b) A water can.
(c) A bandage.
(d) A knife.

10. Who is Susan's husband?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) McFearland.
(c) John.
(d) Thomas.

11. Who offers to help Lear escape the prison?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) The Ghost.

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

13. 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) Carpenter.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) Bodice.

14. Which character says, "If God made the world, might would always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world--out of our smallness and weakness"?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Lear.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) The Ghost.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What frightens the pigs, making them run?

2. Who returns in Act 2, Scene 6?

3. Whom does Carpenter have tied up when he arrives in Act 2, Scene 5?

4. What does Fontanelle beg of Lear in Act 2?

5. What do the soldiers contemplate doing in Act 2, Scene 5?

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