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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 name of the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Susan.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Cordelia.

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

3. What does the Wounded Soldier see before he dies onstage?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The stars.
(c) His wife.
(d) The moon.

4. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Warrington.

5. What does Lear help the Wife do?
(a) Pick vegetables.
(b) Hang laundry.
(c) Cook dinner.
(d) Gather the pigs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of Lear's daughters?

2. Which character says, "They are my sheep and if one of them is lost I'd take fire to hell to bring him out"?

3. Who has been captured in Act 1, Scene 4?

4. Who accompanies Lear in Act 1, Scene 5?

5. Who is planning to marry the Duke of North?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Bodice and Fontanelle plan for Lear's future at the trial? How do they go about this plan?

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

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

5. Describe the torture of the captured Warrington. What does this scene inform the reader or audience about the nature of the characters?

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

7. What is the argument between Lear and the Gravedigger's Wife? How do these characters feel about each other?

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

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

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

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