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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the Carpenter is always around?
(a) He's spying on them.
(b) He's in love with his wife.
(c) He wants to steal the water.
(d) He works for the army.

3. What does Lear recognize in the well bucket?
(a) Soil.
(b) Blood.
(c) A dagger.
(d) A baby.

4. Who is NOT present in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cornwall.
(c) Lear.
(d) North.

5. Who does Fontanelle say posed for her husband's portraits?
(a) Himself.
(b) His son.
(c) An actor.
(d) His brother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the soldiers are doing?

3. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?

4. What has killed one of the workers on the wall?

5. What does Lear help the Wife do?

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