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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is the Junior Officer in the last scene?
(a) Thomas.
(b) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(c) Carpenter.
(d) The Farmer's Boy.
2. What is one of the main themes of Lear?
(a) Love.
(b) Sex.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Violence.
3. 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.
4. Who says, "You have two enemies, lies and the truth. You sacrifice truth to destroy lies, and you sacrifice life to destroy death. It isn't sane"?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Carpenter.
(d) Lear.
5. What are the soldiers studying in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) A dead soldier.
(b) A map.
(c) A canyon.
(d) A ravine.
6. 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) Lear.
(b) Councillor.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Cordelia.
7. Who meets Lear in the woods in Act 3?
(a) Susan and John.
(b) Susan and Carpenter.
(c) Cornelia and Carpenter.
(d) Bodice and Fontanelle.
8. Who does Lear want to live for at the end of Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Bodice.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Cordelia.
9. Who offers to go infiltrate the camps and gain support against the crown in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Lear.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Ben.
10. What does Fontanelle beg of Lear in Act 2?
(a) To kill her.
(b) To let her be Queen.
(c) To kill himself.
(d) To reason with the soldiers to let them free.
11. Who speaks the last lines in the play?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) The Farmer's Son.
(c) Susan.
(d) Lear.
12. What does Cordelia ask of Lear in Act 3?
(a) To stop speaking against the government.
(b) To leave the country.
(c) To free the pigs.
(d) To hand over the stowaways.
13. What frightens the pigs, making them run?
(a) The soldiers.
(b) Susan.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Lear.
14. Who does Carpenter tell Fontanelle has been captured?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Lear.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Cordelia.
15. What does Lear tell Bodice he has done to Fontanelle in the cell?
(a) Destroyed her.
(b) Loved her.
(c) Forgiven her.
(d) Freed her.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who returns in Act 2, Scene 6?
2. Who is McFearson?
3. What does Lear kneel by in Act 2, Scene 7?
4. What do the soldiers tell the Small Man will be done to him in Act 3, Scene 2?
5. Who arrives after the soldiers leave in Act 3 Scene 1?
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