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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 is the setting of Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) The prison.
(b) The War Chamber.
(c) The King's Quarters.
(d) The woods.
2. Who is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Lear.
(d) Cordelia.
3. Who initially protests the execution of the workman at the wall?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Bodice.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Cornelia.
4. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) The Captain.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Lear's daughters.
5. Who spots Lear and creeps up on him from behind in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Councillor.
(d) Fontanelle.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who suggests the workman be imprisoned rather than executed?
2. Who enters carrying bread and water in Act 1, Scene 5?
3. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?
4. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?
5. Whose dress does Bodice wear in the prison cell?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the Wounded Soldier in Act 2 Scene 3?
2. Who appears to Lear in prison? How was this character known to Lear before this point?
3. Describe how Lear is blinded in the prison scene. Why is he blinded?
4. What does Lear offer to the strangers who arrive at the house? What is Thomas's reaction?
5. How does Fontanelle feel about her husband? What does she say regarding him sexually?
6. Why do the villagers come to hear Lear speak? What message is he telling them?
7. Who is the wild man living in the woods? How does he know Lear?
8. What is the significance of the location of Act 3, Scene 3?
9. How does Lear feel about the Duke of North and the Duke of Cornwall? Why?
10. What does Warrington reveal about Bodice and Fontanelle in Act 1, Scene 2? What is his course of action?
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