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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who asks Lear to stand up in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) The farmer's wife.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) The farmer.

3. Who says, "I tried to follow you but when we got out in the open the wind was too strong, it pushed me back"?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Fontanelle.

4. Who does Fontanelle say posed for her husband's portraits?
(a) His brother.
(b) His son.
(c) Himself.
(d) An actor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who returns in Act 2, Scene 6?

2. What does Carpenter tell the soldiers they don't have left?

3. What do the soldiers contemplate doing in Act 2, Scene 5?

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

5. Whom does Lear want to write to in Act 2, Scene 7?

(see the answer key)

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