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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lear kneel by in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) The wall.
(b) The well.
(c) The river.
(d) The castle.

2. Who is gagged in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Lear.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Bodice.
(d) The Gravedigger's Boy.

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

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

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

6. Why doesn't Thomas want the others to stay at the house?
(a) They'll be persecuted.
(b) They are spies.
(c) They are dangerous.
(d) They are soldiers.

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

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

9. Who is the Junior Officer in the last scene?
(a) Thomas.
(b) The Farmer's Boy.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Carpenter.

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

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

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

13. What character is introduced in Act 3?
(a) All of the answers are true.
(b) John.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Susan.

14. What role does Lear play in the play?
(a) Tragic hero.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Antihero.
(d) Nihilist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Lear call when he's being led by the soldiers?

2. What does Lear beg the son not to do in Act 2, Scene 7?

3. Where does the Ghost promise to lead Lear after leaving the prison?

4. What is the story about that Lear tells in Act 3, Scene 2?

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

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