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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 does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?
(a) The Battlefield.
(b) The Prison.
(c) The King's Chambers.
(d) The Daughters' War Council.

2. Who speaks of an animal in a cage at the trial?
(a) Lear.
(b) Old Sailor.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Councillor.

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

4. Why do the soldiers enter Lear's prison cell in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) To beat him.
(b) To search it.
(c) To take his daughters away.
(d) To take him to the tower.

5. Who maniacally encourages the torture of Warrington?
(a) Lear.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) Bodice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who initially protests the execution of the workman at the wall?

2. Who advises the king to refuse the war?

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

4. Who says, "Now I have all the power... and I'm a slave. Worse."?

5. What does Lear ask of Fontanelle while in the prison cell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the irony of Lear's death on the Wall at the final scene?

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

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

4. What does Warrington advise the king regarding the war with Bodice and Fontanelle? What is Lear's reply?

5. Describe the symbolic relevance of the cradle and the wall. Compare and contrast the two.

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

7. Who is the wild man living in the woods? How does he know Lear?

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

9. How does Lear react to seeing Fontanelle's autopsy? How does this change his point of view?

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

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