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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?
(a) Graveyard.
(b) Prison.
(c) Courtroom.
(d) Woods.

4. Who plans to marry the Duke of Cornwall?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Cornelia.
(d) Bodice.

5. Who says, "We won't chain ourselves to the dead, or send our children to school in the graveyard"?
(a) Warrington.
(b) Bodice.
(c) Lear.
(d) Fontanelle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Carpenter bring to the Wife?

2. What is the name of the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?

3. What does Bodice demand be handed to Lear while at the trial?

4. Who asks to stay with Lear in his cell?

5. Who intends to overthrow Lear in Act 1, Scene 1?

(see the answer key)

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