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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 does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear has left him, and "wanted a horse to take him to town"?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Councillor.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Fontanelle.

2. How did the Gravedigger's Boy discover the water for the well?
(a) Fighting in a war.
(b) Digging his mother's grave.
(c) Digging his father's grave.
(d) Digging his daughter's grave.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enters with a wooden box in Act 1, Scene 7?

2. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

3. Why doesn't the Old Orderly know Lear's crime?

4. Why does the Boy say his wife is upset?

5. Who says, "To fight like us you must hate. We can't trust a man unless he hates"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why has Lear chosen to erect the wall? How long has it been in construction?

2. Who do Thomas and Susan reflect from earlier in the play? How?

3. What is the significance of the location of Act 3, Scene 3?

4. Why does the Ghost not go with Lear when Lear is taken from the cell?

5. Why does Carpenter refuse to untie the prisoners once he has captured the soldiers in Act 2?

6. What does Lear go to do at the Wall in the final scene? Why?

7. Why do Fontanelle and Bodice capture their husbands and keep them imprisoned?

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

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

10. What does the Orderly say about his imprisonment to Lear in Act 2?

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