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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. Who has been captured in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Lear.
(d) Warrington.

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

3. Which character says, "Virility! It'd be easier to get blood out of a stone, and far more probable. I've bribed a major on his staff to shoot him in the battle"?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Susan.

4. What do the soldiers do to the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?
(a) Drown her.
(b) Rape her.
(c) Shoot her.
(d) Arrest her.

5. Who speaks of an animal in a cage at the trial?
(a) Lear.
(b) Councillor.
(c) Old Sailor.
(d) Bodice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Lear in Act 1, Scene 5?

2. Where did the "wild man" hide?

3. How does Lear order the workman killed in Act 1, Scene 1?

4. What does Lear think attacked him in his sleep?

5. Which character says, "I've always wanted to sit on a man's lungs"?

(see the answer key)

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