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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says, "Men destroy themselves and say it's their duty? It's not possible"?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Lear.
(c) The farmer.
(d) Cordelia.

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

3. 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) The Ghost.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Carpenter.
(d) Lear.

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

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

6. Who asks Lear to stand up in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) The farmer's wife.
(d) The farmer.

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

8. What happens to the prisoners who are led out in Act 2, Scene 6?
(a) They are shot.
(b) They are freed.
(c) They are hanged.
(d) They are knighted.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What is used to kill Bodice?
(a) A rifle.
(b) A noose.
(c) A bayonet.
(d) Fire.

15. Who is McFearson?
(a) Lear's son.
(b) The Small Man.
(c) Cordelia's husband.
(d) The Gravedigger Boy's son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Act 3, Scene 4 take place?

2. Who does Lear want to live for at the end of Act 2, Scene 5?

3. Who approaches Lear and the Ghost in Act 2, Scene 7?

4. What does the Small Man say they're saying in the camps?

5. Who accompanies Lear in Act 2, Scene 7?

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