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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 enters carrying bread and water in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Lear.
(d) The Gravedigger's Boy.

2. What does Bodice say regarding the prisons in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) They've been burned.
(b) They are empty.
(c) They had to be evacuated.
(d) They are overflowing.

3. Which character says, "Virility! It'd be easier to get blood out of a stone, and far more probable. I've bribed a major on his staff to shoot him in the battle"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Susan.
(d) Bodice.

4. Who appears to Lear in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Councillor.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Warrington.
(d) The Ghost.

5. Whom does Lear accuse of betraying him in court?
(a) Judge.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Old Sailor.
(d) Councillor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the Carpenter is always around?

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

3. How does Lear respond to the judge when asked, "And these ladies are your daughters?"?

4. Who says, "We won't chain ourselves to the dead, or send our children to school in the graveyard"?

5. Whom does Lear ask for while in the prison cell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast the characters of Bodice and Fontanelle. Whom are they related to? How are they similar? How are they different?

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

3. What does Lear say about the Farmer's Son joining the army? How does this show a change in his character?

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Lear execute the laborer in Act 1, Scene 1? What are his underlying motives?

9. Describe the character of Warrington. What is his position? To whom is he loyal?

10. What is the significance of the image of Bodice and Fontanelle as children in Lear's cell?

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