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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Gravedigger's Boy discover the water for the well?
(a) Digging his mother's grave.
(b) Digging his father's grave.
(c) Digging his daughter's grave.
(d) Fighting in a war.

2. Who is addressing a battle regiment in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Fontanelle.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Lear.

3. Why does Lear insist his enemies hate him?
(a) He has built a wall.
(b) He killed their fathers.
(c) He has starved their people.
(d) He has taken their kingdoms.

4. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?
(a) Susan.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Fontanelle.

5. What does Lear think attacked him in his sleep?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A wild bear.
(d) A soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Gravedigger's Boy tell Lear that the Carpenter is always around?

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

3. Who stabs knitting needles into Warrington's ears?

4. Who claims he has been blind for seven years on the stand at Lear's trial?

5. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

(see the answer key)

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