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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 Lear will blow up the wall.
(d) That there's a revolution brewing.

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

6. Where has Lear been taken from in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) The well.
(b) The church.
(c) The graveyard.
(d) The prison.

7. What do the soldiers contemplate doing in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Deserting.
(b) Interrogation.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Murder.

8. What does Carpenter tell the soldiers they don't have left?
(a) A HQ.
(b) A leader.
(c) A chance.
(d) A cause.

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

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

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

12. Who says, "I tried to follow you but when we got out in the open the wind was too strong, it pushed me back"?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Cordelia.

13. 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"?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Lear.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Councillor.

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

15. Who tells Lear that Cordelia will come the following day in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Susan.
(d) Councillor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills the Ghost?

2. Where are the civilians being sent in Act 2, Scene 7?

3. Who does Lear ask to lead him on a journey in Act 3, Scene 3?

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

5. What year was <i>Lear</i> written?

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