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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 is the Carpenter's name?
(a) William.
(b) Eric.
(c) James.
(d) John.

2. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) A prison.
(b) A battle field.
(c) A parade ground.
(d) A church.

3. Which of the following is one of Lear's daughters?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Susan.
(d) Cordelia.

4. Who has died at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Lear.
(d) A workman.

5. Who stabs knitting needles into Warrington's ears?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Lear.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Bodice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?

3. What do the soldiers do to the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?

4. What action does Bodice perform throughout Act 1, Scene 3?

5. In Act 1, Scene 1, who claims to have proof that the "enemies" Lear speaks of are not actually enemies?

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