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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who stabs knitting needles into Warrington's ears?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Lear.
(d) Fontanelle.

2. What does Bodice say as she leaves Lear's prison cell?
(a) I'm taking you to hell with me.
(b) You'll be executed tomorrow.
(c) Mother's dead. I must serve tea.
(d) The war has ended.

3. What does Bodice demand be handed to Lear while at the trial?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A letter.
(c) A baby.
(d) A goblet.

4. What job does the Wife give the Carpenter to do?
(a) Tending Lear.
(b) Cleaning the well.
(c) Mending the door.
(d) Tending the pigs.

5. Who says, "Now I have all the power... and I'm a slave. Worse."?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Lear.
(d) Bodice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the captured soldier in Act 2, Scene 3?

2. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?

3. Why do the soldiers enter Lear's prison cell in Act 2, Scene 2?

4. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?

5. Where does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Ghost unhappy and crying in Act 3, Scene 3?

2. What do Thomas and Ben reveal to Lear that they plan to do in Act 3, Scene 2? Why?

3. What does Warrington reveal about Bodice and Fontanelle in Act 1, Scene 2? What is his course of action?

4. How does Susan's conversation with Thomas about Lear echo that of the Gravedigger's Boy and his Wife early in the play?

5. Why does Lear tell Cornelia she must destroy the wall? What does he say regarding pity?

6. Why does Susan tell Lear that she was angry at him but is no longer?

7. Describe Lear's reaction to the mirror in the court scene.

8. What does Fontanelle say on the stand against her father?

9. What is an "aside"? What purpose does it serve the author? Give an example of an aside in Lear.

10. Why does the Ghost stay with Lear at the end of Act 2, Scene 2?

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