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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. What does Cordelia ask of Lear in Act 3?
(a) To hand over the stowaways.
(b) To leave the country.
(c) To stop speaking against the government.
(d) To free the pigs.

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

3. Why do the soldiers enter Lear's prison cell in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) To take his daughters away.
(b) To beat him.
(c) To take him to the tower.
(d) To search it.

4. Who says, "You have two enemies, lies and the truth. You sacrifice truth to destroy lies, and you sacrifice life to destroy death. It isn't sane"?
(a) Lear.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Bodice.

5. Which character says, "If God made the world, might would always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world--out of our smallness and weakness"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Lear.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Carpenter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the soldiers tell the Small Man will be done to him in Act 3, Scene 2?

2. Whose food does Lear offer to the newcomers at the house?

3. Where are the civilians being sent in Act 2, Scene 7?

4. Who leads Susan back into the house at the end of Act 3, Scene 2?

5. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?

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