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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says, "Now I have all the power... and I'm a slave. Worse."?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Lear.
(d) Bodice.

2. Why does Lear, in an aside, tell his daughter the workman is being executed?
(a) Because he's hired by Cornwall.
(b) Because his hut is unlivable.
(c) Because he's really a traitor.
(d) To make the workers work faster.

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

4. What does the Small Man say they're saying in the camps?
(a) That Lear is a traitor.
(b) That Cordelia will have them all killed.
(c) That there's a revolution brewing.
(d) That Lear will blow up the wall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who meets Lear in the woods in Act 3?

2. Who wrote the original <i>King Lear</i> upon which Bond based his play?

3. Who says, "I came here when I was cold and hungry and afraid. I wasn't turned away, and I won't turn anyone away"?

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

5. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?

(see the answer key)

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