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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What frightens the pigs, making them run?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Lear.
(c) The soldiers.
(d) Susan.

3. Who offers to go infiltrate the camps and gain support against the crown in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Lear.
(d) Ben.

4. Why is the Ghost upset with Lear in Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) He accused the Ghost of murder.
(b) He stole from the watchmen.
(c) He refused to die nobly.
(d) He didn't tell Cornelia he was there.

5. Where is the farmer's boy going?
(a) To join the army.
(b) To the castle.
(c) To the work camp.
(d) To the fields.

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

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

8. Who returns in Act 2, Scene 6?
(a) The child.
(b) The Steward.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Cordelia.

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

10. 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) Lear.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Cordelia.

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

12. What does Lear beg the son not to do in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Go to the work camps.
(b) Desert him.
(c) Leave the country.
(d) Join the army.

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

14. What does the Small Man say they're saying in the camps?
(a) That Lear is a traitor.
(b) That Cordelia will have them all killed.
(c) That there's a revolution brewing.
(d) That Lear will blow up the wall.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the Small Man say he looks ragged to Thomas?

3. Who kills the Ghost?

4. Who says, "Men destroy themselves and say it's their duty? It's not possible"?

5. 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"?

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