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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scenes 2, 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Act 1, Scene 4 take place?
(a) The chapel.
(b) The war room.
(c) Prison area.
(d) King's quarters.

2. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?
(a) The King's Chambers.
(b) The Daughters' War Council.
(c) The Prison.
(d) The Battlefield.

3. Which character says, "I've always wanted to sit on a man's lungs"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Warrington.

4. Which character says, "They are my sheep and if one of them is lost I'd take fire to hell to bring him out"?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Lear.
(d) Bodice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who initially protests the execution of the workman at the wall?

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

3. Who suggests the workman be imprisoned rather than executed?

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

5. Who is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?

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