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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) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Lear.

2. What does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the soldiers are doing?
(a) Deserting his daughters.
(b) Dying en masse.
(c) Searching for Warrington.
(d) Pulling down the wall.

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

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

5. Who does the Boy's Wife see outside the house?
(a) Councillor.
(b) The Captain.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Bodice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the soldiers do to the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?

2. Where do Bodice and Fontanelle plan to meet at the end of Act 1, Scene 1?

3. Who has ordered Warrington's tongue cut out?

4. Who speaks of an animal in a cage at the trial?

5. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Warrington advise the king regarding the war with Bodice and Fontanelle? What is Lear's reply?

3. Describe Lear's reaction to the mirror in the court scene.

4. What does Lear offer to the strangers who arrive at the house? What is Thomas's reaction?

5. Why do the villagers come to hear Lear speak? What message is he telling them?

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

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

8. Why does Cordelia refuse to take the captured soldier into her army?

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

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

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