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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Thomas want the others to stay at the house?
(a) They are spies.
(b) They are soldiers.
(c) They are dangerous.
(d) They'll be persecuted.

2. What is Bodice doing at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Writing.
(c) Knitting.
(d) Pacing.

3. What job does the Wife give the Carpenter to do?
(a) Tending the pigs.
(b) Tending Lear.
(c) Cleaning the well.
(d) Mending the door.

4. Whose food does Lear offer to the newcomers at the house?
(a) Thomas's.
(b) Cordelia's.
(c) His own.
(d) Susan's.

5. What does the Small Man say they're saying in the camps?
(a) That Cordelia will have them all killed.
(b) That Lear is a traitor.
(c) That there's a revolution brewing.
(d) That Lear will blow up the wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?

2. For whom are the soldiers looking in Act 3, Scene 1?

3. What weapons do the rebel soldiers carry?

4. Who arrives asking for water in Act 3, Scene 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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