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

2. Where does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?
(a) Woods.
(b) Courtroom.
(c) Prison.
(d) Graveyard.

3. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(b) The Captain.
(c) Lear's daughters.
(d) Cordelia.

4. What does Bodice demand be handed to Lear while at the trial?
(a) A goblet.
(b) A letter.
(c) A mirror.
(d) A baby.

5. Who says, "We won't chain ourselves to the dead, or send our children to school in the graveyard"?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Lear.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Wounded Soldier see before he dies onstage?

3. Who has died at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1?

4. How did the Gravedigger's Boy discover the water for the well?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Councillor tell Lear and the others is the fate of the Small Man? How does Lear react?

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

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

4. How does Fontanelle feel about her husband? What does she say regarding him sexually?

5. What does Lear tell Fontanelle to do in order to be treated well? What does he tell her to refrain from?

6. Why has the Small Man come to find Lear? Where has he come from?

7. Who is the Carpenter? What is revealed to Lear about this character? How does he fit into the plot?

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

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

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

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