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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. Where did the "wild man" hide?
(a) The bushes.
(b) The house.
(c) The well.
(d) The trees.
2. Which character says, "Politics is the higher form of justice"?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Lear.
(d) Judge.
3. What has killed one of the workers on the wall?
(a) A fallen axe.
(b) A fallen stone.
(c) An explosion.
(d) A bear.
4. Which character says, "O don't waste your hypocrisy on me. You tried to kill yours once. My spies told me and they don't lie. They're the only moral institution in this country"?
(a) Lear.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Fontanelle.
5. What does Lear think attacked him in his sleep?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A wild bear.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who asks to stay with Lear in his cell?
2. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?
3. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?
4. What is the name of the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?
5. Who enters carrying bread and water in Act 1, Scene 5?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Councillor tell Lear and the others is the fate of the Small Man? How does Lear react?
2. Who is leading a revolution against Bodice and Fontanelle? How do we learn this information?
3. Why does Cordelia refuse to take the captured soldier into her army?
4. Why does Lear execute the laborer in Act 1, Scene 1? What are his underlying motives?
5. Describe the character of Warrington. What is his position? To whom is he loyal?
6. Compare and contrast the characters of Bodice and Fontanelle. Whom are they related to? How are they similar? How are they different?
7. Why do Fontanelle and Bodice capture their husbands and keep them imprisoned?
8. Describe the symbolic relevance of the cradle and the wall. Compare and contrast the two.
9. Why is the Farmer and his family leaving the land?
10. Why has Lear chosen to erect the wall? How long has it been in construction?
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