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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who accompanies Lear in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Councillor.

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

3. What does the prisoner do to Fontanelle's body?
(a) Removes it.
(b) Revives it.
(c) Burns it.
(d) Autopsies it.

4. Who foretells how Lear's army will attack in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) The Carpenter.
(b) North.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Cornelia.

5. Who enters carrying bread and water in Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Lear.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Cordelia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "To fight like us you must hate. We can't trust a man unless he hates"?

2. What does the Wounded Soldier see before he dies onstage?

3. Why does Lear insist his enemies hate him?

4. Whom do the soldiers come to take away in Act 3, Scene 2?

5. What does Lear ask of Fontanelle while in the prison cell?

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