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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. What does Bodice hand to Fontanelle in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Their marriage licenses.
(b) Her mirror.
(c) Her wool.
(d) Warrants to sign.

2. Who does the Boy's Wife see outside the house?
(a) Bodice.
(b) The Captain.
(c) Councillor.
(d) Warrington.

3. What has killed one of the workers on the wall?
(a) A fallen axe.
(b) A bear.
(c) A fallen stone.
(d) An explosion.

4. Who does Lear claim are his enemies?
(a) Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Stonewall.
(b) Duke of North and Duke of Ireland.
(c) Duke of Cornwall and Duke of North.
(d) Duke of South and Duke Willingshead.

5. What do the soldiers do to the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?
(a) Arrest her.
(b) Drown her.
(c) Shoot her.
(d) Rape her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been captured in Act 1, Scene 4?

2. What does Lear help the Wife do?

3. What does Fontanelle complain about in Act 1, Scene 1?

4. Who accompanies Lear in Act 1, Scene 5?

5. What does Lear find on the ground in Act 1, Scene 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Ghost die? How does Lear react?

2. How does Lear feel about the Duke of North and the Duke of Cornwall? Why?

3. Do Bodice and Fontanelle trust one another? What actions or dialogue reveals their true feelings?

4. How does Fontanelle react to being taken prisoner? What does she say?

5. Describe what happens at the end of Act 1, Scene 7 with the soldiers at the Gravedigger's Boy's house.

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

7. Who is leading a revolution against Bodice and Fontanelle? How do we learn this information?

8. Why has Lear been spared in the prison? How does he escape?

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

10. Describe how Lear is blinded in the prison scene. Why is he blinded?

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