View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fontanelle beg of Lear in Act 2?
(a) To kill her.
(b) To let her be Queen.
(c) To reason with the soldiers to let them free.
(d) To kill himself.

2. Who speaks the last lines in the play?
(a) The Farmer's Son.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) Lear.
(d) Susan.

3. Who returns in Act 2, Scene 6?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) The child.
(c) The Steward.
(d) The Ghost.

4. Who tells Lear that Cordelia will come the following day in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Susan.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Councillor.

5. Where does the Ghost promise to lead Lear after leaving the prison?
(a) To the battle field.
(b) To the church.
(c) To the cemetery.
(d) To the house he lived in.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Act 3 begin?

2. What does Carpenter tell the soldiers they don't have left?

3. Which character says, "For as long as I can remember there was misery and waste and suffering wherever you were. You live in your own mad world, you can't hear me"?

4. Whom does Lear want to write to in Act 2, Scene 7?

5. Which character says, "If God made the world, might would always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world--out of our smallness and weakness"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 225 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample