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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. Whose dress does Bodice wear in the prison cell?
(a) Her sister's.
(b) Her aunt's.
(c) Her daughter's.
(d) Her mother's.

2. What happens to the captured soldier in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) He is hanged.
(b) He joins the rebels.
(c) He is freed.
(d) He is shot.

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

4. Who has died at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) A workman.
(b) Lear.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Bodice.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?

3. Who is present in Act 2, Scene 3?

4. What job does the Wife give the Carpenter to do?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Ghost unhappy and crying in Act 3, Scene 3?

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

3. In Act 2, what character changes has Cordelia undergone since Act 1?

4. Who is the Gravedigger's Boy? What does the exposition reveal about his background? What is his purpose in the play?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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